> For example, in the conversation on promoting Linux, Niam Infotech top > posted a reply on top of Jobin's top post which was on top of > Kenneth's email, saying "Thanks a ton for taking this initiative. > Appreciated." There is no way to tell for sure whom the poster was > appreciating, unless he mentions it. The same applies for criticism as > well.
So, we have to request the top posters to add "Mention" for whom they write. :-) >Also removing all the context from a reply and posting the reply > alone is also considered top posting by many people. There is no way > to absolutely ascertain the target of the reply. It might be possible > to apply common sense and context to find out, but that might not be > possible always. The new comers scare to mail to our list on the fear of top/bottom/middle post threats. So, some of them remove all the content and type their replies. > And while I agree that we're past the era of bandwidth issues (just my > personal opinion), why should we repeatedly archive the context in > every single mail though the mailing list already does that? We're > wasting hard disk space in addition to making the reading of emails > from the list difficult. The gmail tricks the reader by hiding all the quoted text. We can see that all the top/bottom posts wont give any trouble for the gmail users. Who uses other email systems and email clients link mutt, emacs, thunderbird suffer from top/bottom posts. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
