Raul >As an archivist i do appreciate and use top posting:) But i clean up the >messes made by MUAs, the constant shifting of paragraphs post by posts. This >becomes ragged as it goes over the MUAs limit at regular intervals. Initial >posts of long threads can be quite unreadable because of the >'s and the >raggedness.
greg ~krsnadas.org -- from: Raul Miller <[email protected]> to: Chat forum <[email protected]> date: 15 May 2013 14:10 subject: Re: [Jchat] posting for the ages See also: http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/2011-May/034524.html -- Raul -- from: greg heil <[email protected]> to: Chat forum <[email protected]> date: 15 May 2013 13:49 subject: Re: [Jchat] posting for the ages >Far and away most folk take whatever their MUA gives them and start typing >where that caret lands them. A few will edit the quoted post. Very few outside >in another editor. So if we want to have a significant effect on the "baddie" >(by netiquette rules) of top posting it has to done by changing the way the >MUAs are constructed. Google in one swell foop could make a effect on >netiquette. Not to mention line wrapping etc etc. greg ~krsnadas.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
