At 09:20 AM 26/10/02 -0500, Shawn King shawn-at-yourmaclife.com wrote: >It's Dan's way or the highway.
Dan hasn't been so absolutist. On 17th October he wrote <http://mail.maclaunch.com/lists/imac-list/Message/17547.html>: >Thanks to the discussion on this list, we will be generally recommending >that people *not* top post. Need to think through all the issues >involved, though, because there are times when it is appropriate. Will >share my thoughts on all the lists when I've got issues pretty well >settled in my mind. The real problem is that top posting encourages excessive quoting, as top-posting people are much more likely to include the entire post below their contribution (some have even said that this is intentional and normal -- a practice that has always seemed thoughtless and inconsiderate to me whether in business or wherever). My view, irrelevant as it is, is that trying to legislate on this is doomed to creating discord. The automated warnings (presumably triggered when the message includes the boilerplate footer) are enough. It's more difficult to wade through, for instance, posts written as slabs of stream-of-consciousness unpunctuated text whatever sequence they're in. Working as an editor I often encounter problems when I ask people to change their writing style, or just cut the fat, as illustrated here recently. I don't think there's much point in trying here. Either people absorb the culture, or eventually they'll get ignored and leave of their own accord. -- 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
