Oh, that's a great idea, Tom. Let's have everyone operate to your exacting standards. I can appreciate that not everyone did their degree in mail list etiquette and have lives to live and so want to be economical with their time.
So for my part I scan emails top, bottom or otherwise posted and reply if I think I have a contribution to make or something to learn (in my experience knowledgeable people are often extremely busy and brief). Clearly if something has become illegible or doesn't include relevant information, it's not going to garner any attention or convey any useful information. But in my experience most posts on this list are good enough and some tolerance goes a long way. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Ivar Helbekkmo Sent: November 11, 2004 9:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Top posting George Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So that I can understand the almost religious fervour on this point > could someone please explain to me why top posting is so hated!! Because there's such an enormous amount of communication one would like to take part in, and not enough time. The easier it is to quickly discover a) whether each item is interesting, and b) what is the exact context of the item, and of its constituent parts, the more interesting material we can actually read. Therefore, "top posting" and "bottom posting" are equally bad; the ideal is an easily readable text that's placed into its proper context by short quotes of the relevant bits of previous communication. (Note: *short* quotes. If the reader wants the full text of the previous message, retrieving that message takes but a moment, so there's no need to quote it all.) For my own part, I have taken to ignoring anything that is badly formatted, top posted, bottom posted, or otherwise makes it difficult to quickly get into the flow of the communication. My default is to move on; only if your posting quickly establishes that it is, in fact, interesting to me, will I read it. To put it bluntly: if you can't be bothered to make an effort to communicate, what you say can't be very important. ;-) -tih -- Tom Ivar Helbekkmo, Senior System Administrator, EUnet Norway Hosting www.eunet.no T +47-22092958 M +47-93013940 F +47-22092901 FWD 484145 _______________________________________________ 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
