Gerald Uhlan writes: >Actually, this reinforces the need for both top posting and trimming. >Yahoo! cuts off text on long emails at the bottom if they are longer than a >certain number of characters. So with bottom posted replies, the reader may >not get to see the reply! I can't tell you how many times I've gotten >e-mail from my Yahoo! groups that were incomplete because of this >limitation.
I'd never pay for an email service that truncated incoming messages. I wouldn't even use a free email service that did that. Sorry, but I can't see bending the lists to the inconsiderate policies of one organization. Thomas D. Kearns writes: >Each e-mail message from a list gets only >about a second while I determine whether the topic is of interest. And >if it's buried at the bottom, a lot of times I just don't have the time >to scroll (sometimes indefinitely it seems). Don't we all wish our teachers had read our book reports the sames way? First paragraphs looks fine -- good enough for me. If you can't hit the page down button, use your scroll wheel, or click on the scroll bar a time or two, the problem isn't ours. I'm sure I'll have more replies when my lemlists.com mailbox is restored, but it's been down since Saturday. :-( Dan the listmom -- 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:imac-list@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:imac-list-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:imac-list-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
