In news:[email protected],
Keith N. McKenna <[email protected]> typed:
Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2010-02-12 5:12 AM, Linda L. Hull wrote:
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From: "Keith R Bainbridge" <[email protected]>
Most people who prefer top-posting do so because they are too lazy to
spend a few extra seconds to properly format their replies.
Outlook apparently still requires a plugin to quote only selected
text in replies/forwards, but it can do it.
I could also say that most people who bottom post mindlessly do not
snip either.
Many people don't trim their messages. I often forget myself because I don't
trim until I've completed my response in order to not trim away something I
might respond about but erroeously trimmed earlier.
... All they do is set to start at bottom and type away
thereby forceing people to scroll through sometime pages of stuff
I guess I object to the "mindless" comment which is totally uncalled for and
of no use to the thread.
And No, all it takes is a CTRL-END to jump to the bottom with the cursor.
Often there is no need to even think about scrolling with the mouse. Other
times I'll not trim so that I can't be accused of having trimmed out
something a responder might think is a lot more relevant than I did. I also
won't trim a particularly good post if it contains an especially useful
passage about how to do something; it prevents people from having to recall
already read and no longer visible messages to get at the original posting
of the information. So I leave that part in tact and trim around it.
But the majority of the time trimming is best whenever the length of the
post exceeds more than one or two screens in length.
Personally I often don't care if the post was trimmed or not. It's only two
keys to get to the top or bottom, and PageUp PageDown are useful too
sometimes. If the entire post has been left in tact; no problem either. And
no need to scroll thru it. Unless I wish to.
If, however, a post has never been trimmed and there are responses from
multiple people there as denoted by the >, >>, >>>, >>>>, (and also colors
on my screen) and so on, as I scroll along in those cases, I might provide
responses to several of those people. It's obvious from the indents who is
being responded to, so it is one opportunity to comment on several stages of
the discussion as it developed.
Much ado about nothing here, really. I say if the posting etiquette is that
important to a person, they should go look for a complaint group with
requiremetns that fit their own needs. It's the complainer needs to change,
not the already established groups and guidelines.
HTH,
Twayne
they have already read many times before. The main thing is to read
the etiquette prefeerences for the list or news group and than comply
with them. No matter what you do remember to trim your posts of
extraneous material to make it aier on all.
Keith
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