Am I the only one that finds these sentences incongruous:
$Bill Luebkert:
a) We don't need a flame war here...
vs.
b) Look at all the crap you left in your post.
c) Just becuase you're lazy, don't make that an
excuse to give up on proper etiquette.
I also think that this is a personal decision that is not absolute, and hate
to see this conversation started for the umpteenth hundred time. If you
like top posting or your email app is not geared or whatever your reason,
then top post. If you like inline, then do so inline. Bottom posting? Go
for it. Personally, I think that sometimes top posting is best when the
context permits it, but inline is often necessary.
Personally, I hate ASCII art, overly verbose signatures and legal
disclaimers on developer forums, but I'm not going to say that the rule /
etiquette / status quo / intelligent thing to do is to eliminate it, even
though it seems self-evident to me (and sometimes you can't change it).
And top posting seemed the most appropriate place for this message so you
don't have to wade through crap when the context is completely discernable
from this message.
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: $Bill Luebkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 9:15 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Top posting
R. S. van Keuren wrote:
> When a post starts to contain more than one previous message or pane, top
> posting is much easier to follow than bottom posting. With bottom posting,
> it's hard to find the most recent message.
Bull. If you properly trim and intersperse your replies, you have the best
possible result. Look at all the crap you left in your post. We don't
need a flame war here - at one point in time it was stated in the FAQ how
to properly reply to a post. Just becuase you're lazy, don't make that an
excuse to give up on proper etiquette.
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