> I'd disagree with your comment re OE users. If you are lazy yes, but > many do > think thoughtfully before replying and bottom post. I use Entourage at > home > and OE at work, and always bottom post.
Well of course there are a lot of exceptions the rule, but using OE makes it easy to be "lazy." Speaking strictly for myself, although I religiously intermix and bottom-post I don't have a huge problem with top-posters IF ... and this is the vitally important part -- IF they trim what they are quoting down to just the relevant part. The problem is that most of them -- including the people here who have been arguing the pro-top-posting position -- rarely do, leaving the list filled with redundant and extraneous material, extra footers, repeated ads over and over, and occasionally even an entire digest in quote! I'm hardly a neat freak in real life <chuckles to himself at the irony> but I like email -- whether individual posts or digests -- to be nice and neat, and treat the text with economy. If everyone would just religiously trim their quoting to JUST what they are replying to, the "debate" of which way is "right" -- over the top or down from the bottom (oops, sorry, that's the toilet paper holy war -- got confused for a minute!) -- would largely die down. _Chas_ Come to ... The CHASbah! http://thechasbah.blogspot.com Chas' CULTural Calendar (for Orlando): http://ical.mac.com/chasm/Chas'CULTuralCalendar -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
