On 2010-05-10 1:44 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote: > On 10 May 2010 15:03, John Kaufmann <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip> >> "Content of a follow-up post should exceed quoted content." Then Microsoft >> introduced Outlook, with default behavior of posting above a fully-quoted >> message, and top-posting soon became "normal"; as many users know, MS >> invented the Internet. >> >> John >> >> I was using e-mail before screens and before the local devices had any > storage. Yeah, that's kind of obvious, since you can't seem to get this quting thing down at all... > Messages had to be printed as they came down the wire. If you top > posted it meant the reader could hit the Break/Interrupt key after > reading your stuff and avoid having to re-print stuff s/he already > knew. It was possible but hard to bottom post. It was possible but > much harder to "middle post". ??? You didn't do either on a teletype, you simply had a conversation, and if you needed to reference something, you went back and read the transcript... I'd have considered anyone who tried to bottom post (there's no such thing as middle-post) as mentally challenged/unstable. > E-mail was designed for conversations. In a conversation it is not > customary to repeat everything that's already been said before saying > something new. Double ??? Email was designed for one way communications. Yes, you can use it in a kind of conversation mode, but it is only workable if a basic set of rules is adhered to - which is why email lists generally have such rules. On this list, the general rule is bottom-post and trim the crap. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
