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Oh no! You won't get me to argue top vs bottom posting. Might as well
join the battle of big-endians vs. little-endians.
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From: Eric S. Sande [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] CUT AND PASTE. (PLEASE)
Bottom quoting is for bottom feeders. I believe we have all
been taught to read from the top of the page to the bottom of
page.
Please clarify... am I bottom quoting or top
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Brian Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Original Message - From: Eric S. Sande [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] CUT AND PASTE. (PLEASE)
Bottom quoting is for bottom feeders. I believe we have all
been taught to read from the top of the page
Bottom quoting is for bottom feeders. I believe we have all
been taught to read from the top of the page to the bottom of
page.
Please clarify... am I bottom quoting or top quoting in this message?
Top quoting. See how this flow thing works?
:-)
They might be responding from iPhones...
Mike
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Rich Schinnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it is about time for cutnpaste 101 again.
It really is not that hard to cut and paste the pertinent parts
of a CG message to a reply or a new message..
I have
It really is not that hard to cut and paste the pertinent parts
of a CG message to a reply or a new message..
Why is this important? I know the price of gas is going up and up, but
the price of bits continues to go down and down.
Quoting before replying makes it clear what is being replied to.
This used to be pertinent when a 5 megabyte hard drive was $1,000. Now that a
500 GB hard drive is less than $100, what difference does it make? Maybe if
you are on dialup and it takes a bit of time to download the message? I for
one appreciate having the entire thread in one message rather
Letter writers seemed to be able to muddle through without it for millenia.
In the days of quill pens, writers often laboriously copied letters for
future reference. That worked well enough for 2-way correspondence, but
in a n-way exchange that just doesn't work. Failing to quote is just
being
Failing to trim quotes and failing to change the subject line have
peeved me for years. If there's a page of quotes, I don't usually
bother to search around for content hidden at the bottom somewhere. If
you want people to see what you have to say, trim the quotes. Or at
the very least, top-post.
Failing to quote is just being a pain, making things harder for
everyone else.
Quill pens aside, I agree. A little stick time on USENET will
pretty much educate a person in a hurry as to what the consensus
standards are.
Bottom quoting is for bottom feeders. I believe we have all
been taught
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