-----Original Message----- From: Scott Ullrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 10:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] A note about top vs bottom posting -- please read and make sure you bottom post on our lists. Thank you.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Curtis LaMasters<[email protected]> wrote: > I actually find that to be annoying to read. However, in the spirit > of good internetship, I'll oblige. Sorry any problems I may have > caused. Let me know if I did that correctly. That looks correct. Unfortunately this is the way mailing lists have operated for as long as I have remembered. Scott --------------------------------------------------------------------- At the risk of singling myself out, I prefer top posting. I thought this battle had been fought and abandoned in the early 90s, as no consensus could be reached. The ratio of top poster fanatics to bottom poster fanatics is generally 1:1. Give that, it is difficult to say that mailing lists have operated consistently in one manner or the other. Personally, I find that bottom posting is confusing to read (for me - others feel the same about top posting). It's also not the default behavior in any version of Microsoft Outlook - which means it is time consuming (and before I get a 'so what', consider the user base...) to do. Rather than spending time revisiting this ancient battle, it may simply be more efficient to require trimming posts to the appropriate amount of content, and allow replies to be made at the posters preference. For my part, if I can read the entire email quickly (read: properly trimmed quotes), I don't particularly care whether someone top or bottom posts. I'm far more irked by issues like poor sentence structure, grammar and punctuation; not to mention content. If it really needs to be list policy for one reason or another, then I'll just do my best to remember to comply. I have found, though, the most effective lists are the ones with the fewest policies. After all, we're all on this list because we like and use PfSense - I don't think any of us are truly interested in spending time having our netiquette scrutinized. :-) Best Regards Nathan Eisenberg Sr. Systems Administrator Atlas Networks, LLC --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
