On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 08:49 -0700, Renegade Penguin wrote:
I know that old nettiquette *required* bottom posting, but the truth of the matter is that societal conventions can actually change. Top-posting has become almost the norm with most people nowadays.
HTML posting (which I probably am, by the way) is also accepted, especially in the US. With over 250 messages in *THIS* inbox (and this is not my main account) every day, having a cable connection is nearly mandatory. I have so many threads that it's nearly impossible for me to read all of them by going through ALL the way, and scrolling to the bottom. There's no way I could or would be on this list on dialup.
Which is the whole point, many people on this list are on dial-up. Should we then exclude people from this list because they still have metered dial-up connections?
English is a top-to-bottom language, rather than the other way around.
Which is why the preferred way on this list is bottom posting. If the list admin will post a preference that should be how the list is used.
Nettiquette has *CHANGED* in recent years, due to people's actions.
Not all change is for the good.
If the server filtered HTML and converted to plaintext, and that's what the people at Novell wanted, that would probably be fine. E-mail clients are so sophisticated (and have been for nearly ten years now) that they can accept plaintext AND HTML. My client (Thunderbird) sends out both if set that way.
But you need to keep in mind the people on metered dial-up. HTML adds greatly to their cost. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge