2009/9/2 John Beckett: > > While I'm ranting on mailing list management issues, does anyone > want to offer an opinion about top/bottom posting? > > On vim_use, I regularly post a slightly friendly reminder to > top-posters that bottom posting is the convention: > http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/web/vim-information > > I notice that top posters are becoming more prevalent in > vim_mac. While I have no concern about how vim_mac runs, it > occurs to me that some of the regulars here might want to > express an opinion.
Hi John, I for one would appreciate your friendly reminders (indeed, I try to nudge people every now and then myself). This top posting business certainly makes my life harder and my hope was that since I respond to most MacVim issues people would respect my wishes, but I am guessing that most people simply are not aware of the rules/guidelines on this list (since they are nowhere clearly stated...although in my experience not many people read such things anyway...ah well). Anyway, I'll certainly keep responding to posts no matter what the poster's posting style. It does help me a lot though if people clearly state what it is they are responding to and those who top-post seldom do. Obviously this is only a problem on longer threads, so a quick top-post to a tiny thread with only one specific issue is not a big deal to me. Björn --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
