On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]>wrote: > > there is a difference between posts in an archived list and posts in a > thread. In a thread where there is more than one recipient, if you use > interleaved posting the whole thread becomes a mess. No one knows what > is happening. Top post is correct in these circumstances and anyone who > tries any other way of posting is insane. Where the mails are archived, > you should quote just enough of the mail you are replying to so that the > recipients do not have to go to the archives every time. > -- > regards > KG >
Following these posting rules is not always easy. Earlier i have been asked in one of the post that why i did not quote the message to which i was replying. The problem is that we have different email services with different ways of quoting messages, and at time you do not have any other option than top posting, or just don't quote anything. I reply many times from my mobile devices and there i can only top post if i need to quote the original message. The mailing list conversation system needs more innovation. Regards, Gautam -- LUG@IITD - http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
