At 9:04 AM -0400 6/14/2009, Mark wrote: > >Tech people like bottom posting, the rest of the world top posts.
No, not the rest of the world. Top posting is fine for light conversational chatting, where context is relatively unimportant. All other threads should be bottom posted and trimmed. Another issue with top posting is that is *discourages* trimming. That means messages grow and grow, to contain a lot of useless headers and other unnecessary drivel. That's ok, maybe, if ALL your participants have high speed network connections. But it screws the ones that pay per minute or per KB. >I don't mind switching back & forth but in Thunderbird it is a 4 >click process to switch. Why switch back and forth at all? Keep in mind one basic rule: Every email message should have more signal than noise. Always start at the top, then insert your new content and trim as you go down. Finish at the bottom of the message, after removing the unnecessary quoted sig lines and such. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
