At 2:06 PM -0600 6/14/2009, Doug McNutt wrote: > >> 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. >> >>True even in my workplaces. Only an emergency would be top posted. Same >>when I worked at Apple (the mothership). > >There was a time - before e-mail and even before messaging to >another colleague on the same computer - when mail was in the form >of a piece of paper inside of an envelope which might well be one of >those reusable ones with the holes to show content. The proper >procedure was to write your message on a letter head, place it ON >TOP of a photocopy of the letter you were responding to and then >send it off.
Interoffice linear discussion packets! I remember those! Only ONE person had the manilla package at a time, tho (unlike emails, where it's 1:many), so the progression was easy to follow. Comments were done as post-it notes covering the original text, or just scribbling in the margins. Sometimes in various colors... Woe to the poor schlub that sneezed and blew the post-its off. >2: Limit quoted text to, say, 20 lines and enforce it by truncating >in software. Blind truncation destroys context. Some things just can't be sung well in only one verse. >3: Provide a link to the message being replied to that can be used >by any reader who needs to follow the thread more closely. Time-wasting: The reader needs to see only the current context, not all of the disposed context also. Money-wasting: The bandwidth-limited reader will have to sign back on to fetch that unnecessary context. >4: Stop wrapping text to an arbitrary line length. God bless AOL and the heck it hath wrought, that lingers today. - 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
