Yeah, I see top posts as personal preference too, and often not something configurable in your reader. And, as long as you are careful in how you word your reply, the message may end up more readable than an inline-response. (Though there are definite times for both).
The others are notorious netiquette items. Often the person just needs a gentle (private) reminder. I sent HTML posts for quite a long time, unaware my mail reader had me in that mode by default. Somebody was nice enough to point that out to me, much to my embarrasment. Jeff Tulley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (801)861-5322 Novell, Inc., the leading provider of Net business solutions http://www.novell.com >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/12/02 3:46:58 PM >>> Hi Zsolt, I personally find it best to read the response on top and to be able to afterwards read the full request if necessary. So I don't need to search it between the hundreds of messages that come during a day. As bandwiths doesn't matter today, the increased size shouldn't be a problem. Concerning the format I would prefer not to have these messages with whole paragraphs in one line, but that's my opinion. Regards. Andreas On 12 Dec 2002 at 14:28, Zsolt Antal wrote: > Hi, > > I'm lurking here about two weeks and I would have a few > questions about > the weird messages in this list: > > Is the following normal, accepted or simply `we must live with > it'? > > - html post > - top post (ie.: reply _above_ the quoted message) > - big sigblocks (over 4-5 lines) > - original post/question as a reply to a message in an > absolutelly unrelated thread > > Or there is no chance to explain this to the users of this list > why all > of the above is bad habit/technique? > > (I'm not wondering when I look at the headers from the weird > posts, especially at the `X-Mailer' field.) > > Sorry for my english! > > -zsolt > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
