On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 01:53:58PM -0500, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 1:45 pm, Jim Norton wrote:
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 01:35:43PM -0500, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Monday 26 January 2004 10:25 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> [01-26-04 22:02]:
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Well, I have corrected your top-posting and trimmed the superfluous full quote under. Please don't top post and trim your posts.
What is top-posting? And what practices do you advocate about trimming messages to which one is responding? I don't think there's any agreed-upon convention about this.
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.
Oh here we go again with the "top posting haters" and "post not trimmed haters" speaking out as if they know the one true correct way to post to an email list.
I claim no such path to enlightenment, though common sense and putting youself in the reader's place do go a long way.
I'm just pointing out that a barrage of "don't top post" and "trim your posts appropriately" can be just as annoying as "top posts" and "improperly trimmed" posts. The point is that not everybody has the same sense of what is irritating. Unless a standard is set by the list moderator, I'm not sure how one can really have any basis upon which to presume what posting style is preferred on a given email list... -- Jim Norton - http://www.jimnorton.org 2 + 2 = 5 for large values of 2