Richard Kleim writes: >Absolutely! I agree with your thoughts re. microsoft. GUI based >email requires top posting to maintain readability. The poster who said >a journal starts at the beginning is way off base - I don't want to >re-read the ENTIRE damn message every time I see it. Think about this - >a message has 10 replies. You read len=1+len=1+1, etc. The total you >have to read or scroll thru is 10! or 55 times as much as you would >have to read if everybody top-posted. I keep my cursor on the delete >icon, and if I have to move it down to scroll down 250 lines in each >post or reply to read your one line comment, I usually assume you are >stupid (nobody on this list, of course) and I don't read your message >anyway. Bottom posters seem totally out of touch. Top posting is the >rule on every list I know, except this one.
Bottom posting has been the norm on every list I've ever been on. It just makes sense and is the original standard. Quote what you're replying to, then reply to it. Like dialogue. Like a play. Like a conversation. Replying and then quoting gets it bass ackwards. And replying without trimming is simply rude. Every mailing list I've ever been on actively encourages trimming the bits you quote to leave only what is essential. And thanks to the long-standing convention of > before quoted material, it should be easy to skip right past the quoted portions if you don't want to read them or refresh your memory. Many email clients even color code quoted matter to make it easier to follow when there are multiple levels of quotation. -- Dan Knight, president /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Cobweb Publishing, Inc. \ / No HTML/RTF in email http://cobwebpublishing.com X No Word docs in email / \ Respect Open Standards! <http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/9910/27.deb.shtml> -- 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
