On Tuesday 27 January 2004 1:47 pm, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 13:35, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Monday 26 January 2004 10:25 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
Well, I have corrected your top-posting and trimmed the superfluous full quote under. Please don't top post and trim your posts.
My approach is to put the original message first (to set the context) and to trim most everything from it that isn't relevant to the response.
Not only that but this is also a high-jacked thread. If you want a new subject stop being so lazy and start your own message. Thread high-jacking screws up the archives and the search engines, as far as providing correct info.
If someone was searching on printing problems they would also get this message which has nothing to do with printing problems.
Alas, the good and social thing to do isn't so clear when a thread drifts. Laziness has nothing to do with it -- it's as easy to start a new thread as to add onto an old one. Someone interested in the discussion of top posting would want this message in the same thread, while someone interested in printing problems wouldn't. Life isn't easy; tree structures don't adapt themselves well to a linear world. Paul Abrahams