So much for nuanced debate. Seriously, the below mail is a terrible advertisement for bottom posting. It's clunky, difficult to read. I had to go through 7 paragraphs to read the one word that was said.
I get the point that this is Udhay's list and he can set the rules. At the same time, getting preachy and unwanted off-list mails on 'list etiquette' when you post on the list for the first time can be irksome. (The mails weren't from Udhay, let me clarify- he has been very reasonable about this). Sent on my BlackBerry® from Vodafone -----Original Message----- From: Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:53:34 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [silk] Top-posting On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 01:05:16PM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote: > OK, OK, here I go. Udhay, there ARE many times when the > ..er...bottom-posting becomes irksome, so I don't post at all. I *am* > serious about saying this, as, I feel, Radhika is, too. > > Hahahaha, you can't fuss about this top-posting! *plonk* > Deepa. > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:57 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I won't get into arguments over whether one style is better than another, > >> but when people refrain from replying on the list because of the top > >> posting fear, isn't that enough reason to relax the rule? > > > > 1. As I already said, I don't usually make a fuss. > > 2. Part of being on a list which is dedicated to conversation is > > mindfulness. That, and keeping the focus on the actual conversation. > > I'm not anal about it, but I do feel this is an important point. > > 3. It's far from clear to me that Radhika was serious about > > top-posting fear being the reason for her infrequent posting. > > > > The "no top posting" rule is already sufficiently relaxed, in my opinion. > > > > Udhay > > -- > > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) > > -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
