Being new to this list i must tread carefully but .... Who cares where the answers are so long as they are helpful and to the point.
If i ask a question it's just nice to get a good clear and concise answer. Makes no odds to me where the answer is in the reply. Simon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Kohlsmith Sent: 17 June 2004 14:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk-Users List Etiquette On Thursday 17 June 2004 09:21, Troy Settle wrote: > However, my preference is for top posting. The reason, is that in order to > read my message here, you had to scroll through ~70 lines of previous > discussion. Stuff that you've /already/ read since you've been following > this thread. That's because you didn't trim anything. To see what I wrote to you You had less than 10 lines to look at. Please don't use absurdity to try and prove your point. > Oh! Wait, you found this in an archive, so you /want/ to have the thread > fully quoted so you don't have to go hunting down the references. Good, > that's why I didn't trim this post. Um no, that's why the archives are threaded themselves. Attempt at reductio ad dbsurdum #2 failed. > Oh, wait, the guys that are following this thread as it's being discussed > would prefer that I trim out the stuff up there, in which case, I would be > neither top posting, nor bottom posting. This message would be a post unto > itself that wouldn't have any quoted material at all. Afterall, you've > already read the referenced material. I consider trimming the quoted text and replying to the bits you keep as they occur bottom posting -- your text is FOLLOWING the relevant bits of the conversation. Inline posting is something completely different and it's even more heinous: > So, the bottom line is that top-posters are lazy? [ yes, they are absolutely. Inline posters are even worse! ] I say yes, we are. We > don't want to have to scroll through pages of quoted material just to get > to the new stuff. [ so trim your damned posts ] That above is an example of inline posting. Some managers have a penchant for that. > I say that the bottom posters are lazy. They want a bottom post so that > they enter into a thread 12 messages later, and not have to read the thread > 'backwards.' Read your mail to begin with, and you wouldn't have this > problem, and you would actually start to appreciate the top posters, > because they're making it so you don't have to scroll through ~70 lines of > quoted material to get to the new stuff. That's not laziness, that is following natural language laws. I have over 25k messages in my local copy of asterisk-users. My MUA understands message threading so if people posted the One True Way (editing quoted content and replying underneath, as I am doing to you here) then there is no problem following the flow of the thread, and if I need more information I move up to the message parent and see the entire message. It's not a difficult thing to understand, and this absurdity you're spewing to try and prove your point only goes to show that your argument doesn't hold much logic. Regards, Andrew _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
