Charles R. Buchanan wrote: > So THAT'S the reason? Hmm? Personally I usually go right past a post > that has the answer on the bottom because nine times out of ten, ok, 8 > times out of ten, you wade through 300 lines of quoted stuff from > multiple messages and when you FINALLY get to the comment waaaaayyyyy on
Not trimming is another violation of etiquette. Notice how I left only 5 lines above. So you can get the gist of what I am responding to and remember what we were talking about but see the beginning of my reply on the same screen. > the bottom, it's usually something you can't use. <shrug> Or worse like, > "no problem" or You're welcome, and so forth. At least with the post on > top, I can immediately see if it's something I want to read or > investigate further. The classic useless reply is "Me too!" to show agreement. AOL'ers used to be infamous for this sort of behavior when they first joined the Internet. > I try to be conscience about snipping and the such. As far as the > threading is concerned, I totally agree with that one. Granted not all > clients don't have a "thread" mode, the one I'm using does, and it comes > in very handy. Hitting reply and changing a subject is not as infuriating to me as it is to others but it is definitely something to be avoided. -- Tracy R Reed http://copilotconsulting.com 1-877-MY-COPILOT -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
