Josh, I'm with you. Having used "email" since 2BM (Before Macs) I've managed to go with the flow. Comments on trimming (blah blah blah) may have been more appropriate in a slower (connectivity) era, but today's email clients are not amicable to this.
Personally, I have no problem reading emails in reverse order, as unfortunately, most corporate email environments behave this way, not that reading a lot of my daily work emails in posting order makes them any easier to understand :) "Anyhow", hope you all had a great weekend, especially everyone dedicated (stupid) enough to have also stayed up into the wee hours of the morning to watch Cadel's triumph in Paris. Cheers, Michael On 25 July 2011 08:42, Joshua Juran <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 24, 2011, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Walther wrote: > > By the way, see the message above? See how the quoted text is >> trimmed? See how there's no sign of the list footer quoted? See how >> the thread of the message flows downward in the order that people >> read? >> >> This is how to post a readable message. Your top posted messages in >> which ** YOU FAIL TO TRIM ANY QUOTED TEXT AT ALL** are rude and >> inconsiderate to other members of the list. >> > > Maybe you should be blaming the software vendors whose mail clients invite > users to post this way by positioning the cursor *above* the quoted reply, a > practice started (if I'm not mistaken) by Microsoft and copied by Apple and > Google, instead of berating users who had no clue that their software was > actively encouraging them to do things considered obnoxious. > > I don't like top-posting either, but your response was inappropriate. > Flaming people for being ignorant was something you could get away with a > couple decades ago before the Eternal September, but we lost the numbers > advantage a long time ago and now must resort to gentler methods. > -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
