On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 08:29 -0500, Billie Walsh wrote: > 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. > So do I, and I find myself taking a bit longer to respond because of bottom posting. But I can see it has its benefits.
> 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 > This actually is something of a challenge. Many of us by force of habit click "reply" and I keep having to stop myself before sending and re-doing the whole thing. On other mailing lists, the system always changes the "reply-to" header to the actual mailing list. So when we click "reply", it won't reply directly to the person instead of the list. Can't we make that change here? It would probably make many lives easier. I know manmail does this because I've configured it as such to do so in the past. > 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. > But doesn't this sort of defeat the purpose of bottom posting? In effect, when we're trimming, we're creating a new thread. If the purpose of bottom posting is to give readers a chance to catch up on the conversation as a whole if they've stepped in late in the game, then they've missed the topic in its entirety when we clip. I just joined this list this week (and I love this list so far...) but there were ongoing conversations when I joined, and people trimmed down as suggested. Reading those posts, I had the feeling there was more to it than what I was reading in front of me. Not to mention, clearly the topic of this conversation is now different from the original topic of this conversation. How are we supposed to handle that? Retitle the subject? Just another newbie feeling my way around. :-) Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
