Jake, This is "top posting". Posting above the message you are replying
to. Many flame wars on the list have been caused by this practice.
Scroll down.
On 10/12/2007 Jake Conk wrote:
Jonathan,
What are you talking about "top post"? Someone also told me to stop
topposting but I don't know what that is and I don't think I'm doing
anything wrong here. I'm not reformatting the emails in any way, heck,
I'm too lazy to go out of my way to reformat something myself.
All I'm doing is clicking reply to the message I want to reply to and
writting my replys. I'm not editing anything or trying to cause a
disturbance here. What's wrong with my emails? Do I possibly have a
gmail setting thats screwing things up or should I reply back with
Rich Text formatting?
I'm sorry if I'm doing something thats irritating you guys
unintentionally. Please tell me so I can try to fix it.
Thanks,
- Jake
This is "bottom posting". The preferred method by the list.
I, personally, like top posting. If, for some reason, my memory is so
poor that I can't remember what the thread is about I can always scroll
down to find out.
A couple other things you might need to know to save you from getting
roasted over the flames:
Reply ONLY to the list. NEVER to the person [ unless requested to do so
]. I use Firefox and there is a rather hard to find extension called
"Reply to List". You can Google for it. Follow the instructions on the
site to get it set up. Otherwise use "Reply to All" and remove the extra
address's
Trim down the quoted portion of the e-mail you are replying to. [ Notice
I did that to your message that I am replying to. ] Having to scroll
through umpteen pages of quoted message is VERY annoying to anyone. [
the reason I like top posting - most people don't trim the reply quote ]
I use an official Mozilla extension called "Quick Quote". With this I
highlight the text I want to quote and right click. Choose "Quote in
Reply to All" and trim out the extra address's. Reply To List doesn't
have a "quote" option. It just quotes the whole message and you have to
manually trim.
NEVER use "Reply" to send a message that isn't directly related to the
original subject. [ Much like this post is to the original post ] It
trash's the "threading". It appears that some people have many terabytes
of mail storage space and save everything "threaded". [ Me, I use the
"Delete" button. I don't find it necessary to keep all that trash. ]
[ Have you ever used a message board? Shows the messages sort of like this:
Original post
Reply1
Reply to Reply1
Reply to Reply to Reply1
Reply to Reply1
Reply2
etcetera ad infinitum et nauseum. ]
That's "threaded" messaging.
I'm sure there is something I missed. But I hope this saves you from
getting roasted alive.
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