A Summary may be best posted at top with details or inline below. The reader can decide whether they want the details.
On Dec 19, 2007 1:08 PM, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, December 19, 2007 12:49 pm, SJS wrote: > > begin quoting David Brown as of Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 12:21:03PM -0800: > > [snip] > >> Boy, I think I need to read your messages in reverse, since I just wrote > >> about the same thing :-) > > > > Well, I *do* try to present my ideas in a logical order. The reader > > should say "But what about X?" just before he comes to a paragraph > > that says "Now let us consider the case of X..." > > > > I've gotten better about reading a whole email before starting my reply, > > but I still haven't gotten down the habit of reading the whole *thread* > > before starting a reply. :-/ > > I am not sure that reading the whole email before starting the post is a always a good idea. It is more conversational to just dive in an start writing in response to what one is reading. Conversation can be either spontaneous or thoughtful rarely both. Each mode has its virtues. > > Some prefer to read them bottom up. I can't tell you how many of my lists, > including where I work, get annoyed if I *don't* top post. > > Frackin' amateurs! When in Rome ... BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
