Except - the most important thing is COURTESY. To OTHER PEOPLE. I'm amazed I've stayed out of this as long as I have :-)
The problem is that top-posting encourages people to "not trim". That leads to, typically, maybe 90% of the average post being junk that's been seen before? Add to that, it is still probably normal that most people do not have "flat fee" net access (that's not true for the US I expect, but it's probably still true overall). How would you like to be downloading all that crap, at a cost of say 50c/min, where your 14,400 modem is running at half-speed due to the phone line being crap! LookOut is designed for people on a LAN running at gigglebit(sic) speeds. Think of those people who are still on old technology ... Cheers, Wol -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Wolverton Sent: 18 February 2004 13:47 To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Subject: RE: [ADMIN] The aforementioned and promised NAG about OVERQUOTING I have to say, I just loaded Outlook 2003, and sort EVERYTHING by conversation... I'm kinda sorry people are now making efforts to complying with 'netiquette', because 'top posts' are SO much easier to use in this venue - it is awesome to be able to run through the whole set of topics in the preview pane without having to so much as scroll.... I suspect we'll see Netiquette change over time for this reason - as posts become more 'real time' and interactive, it would make sense the rules would evolve as well... More and more we're *not* typically reading a response a week later or out of context - the world is changing! Evolve! ;-) -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users *********************************************************************************** This transmission is intended for the named recipient only. It may contain private and confidential information. If this has come to you in error you must not act on anything disclosed in it, nor must you copy it, modify it, disseminate it in any way, or show it to anyone. Please e-mail the sender to inform us of the transmission error or telephone ECA International immediately and delete the e-mail from your information system. Telephone numbers for ECA International offices are: Sydney +61 (0)2 9911 7799, Hong Kong + 852 2121 2388, London +44 (0)20 7351 5000 and New York +1 212 582 2333. *********************************************************************************** -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
