Hi,
I have already explained in a separate message why I think this approach
is not the correct one, and as a list member you should have received that
in the last couple of days (subject of "Substandard Netiquette", sent in
response to a similar complaint). However, since I seem to be in the
minority with regard to this preference, I will agree to quote as I am
already doing, or not quote at all. Not quoting at all does mean that
anyone searching through the archive will not know what I am referring to,
however, but I am not willing to make people's lives on slow
dialup/similar links miserable by simply copying in the original message
for no purpose other than reference as I see abundantly on this list, with
or without appropriate abbreviation. If you are on the list, and we agree
that my top-quoting is a redundancy, then I will happily relieve you of
that redundancy, with or without cost to a non-subscriber. Top-posting is
just too illogical and inconvenient for me to pull off, though, where as
piece-by-piece bottom-posting is almost painless, as it should be, and
actually guarantees the recipient of the information the detail and
clarity they deserve since I will be replying to each and every point, or
else removing the quoted material for which I have no response. From the
general point of view, on newsgroups and mainstream lists, top-posting is
quite definitely not something you want to chance, and neither, to be
honest, is absence of quoting (unless you are very, very specific in
reference - most people are not). There is the general consensus that
people who bottom-post do so in a lazy and inconsiderate fashion, a
consensus in which I have no difficulty agreeing with, and that in turn
will waste space and make any searchable list archive almost completely
useless.
Since this list is not intended for discussing the pros and cons of
netiquette, on or off blindness lists, I will make no further comment on
the matter, unless anyone objects.
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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