I concur. "It is as good to get rid of stuff as to cop a freebie" Nanook of North Kelvinside 1895 On Saturday 12 April 2008 16:37:56 Kyle Gordon wrote: > tldr > > John Seago wrote: > > On Friday 11 April 2008 12:15:07 Kyle Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > >> Top posting worked just fine in that context due to the reply not > >> addressing any part of the post in particular. > > > > To criticise the volume of the original post, (as posted in the digest), > > and then to include the original post in its entirety, seems somewhat > > perverse, would you not agree? Perhaps the suggestion that "it might be > > an idea to have a digest / list of contents at the top of such > > mail-outs", would have sufficed. > > > >> The part that you quote isn't even in the email that Andrew replied to, > >> and is only present in the digest version that you subscribe to. > > > > Here is the material written by Andrew Back in the Email to the Scottish > > list > > > >> I can only speak for myself here, but must say that whilst curious as to > >> what you guys had organised, I started to lose the will to live as I > >> paged down. So it might be an idea to have a digest / list of contents > >> at the top of such mail-outs. So that folks can quickly see if there is > >> anything that is of interest to them and then read on if so. The > >> voluminous monolithic blocks of text approach I find a bit overbearing! > > > > I quoted only the last sentence of the paragraph, I cannot see any > > difference between the post, (threaded), to the Scottish list, and the > > post to the Digest of the Scottish list. Might it be that you are > > referring to the subject line? > > > > The point remains that complaints that "voluminous monolithic blocks of > > text" are found to be overbearing, and that they further cause a loss of > > will to live, lose their impact when made above, "voluminous monolithic > > blocks of text". Or could it be that Andrew Back, whilst intending to > > edit the material he was replying to, forgot to do so? Mayhap he will > > enlighten us. As to the differences between the threaded list and the > > digest, one takes that that meets ones needs. > > > > Whilst the following apply more to usenet > > http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html > > they might perhaps be considered as examples of 'good practice' as > > editing quoted material does prevent successive posts getting longer and > > longer when the entirety of each previous post is quoted, would you not > > agree? > > _______________________________________________ > Scottish mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish -- --- Best Regards Willie Fleming
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