Theo, May I demand that you cut down on all that irrelevant, pointless clutter you use as a signature? It's a pain in the ass to have to trim it out of every one of your posts to which I reply. [You'll note that since this content does not directly address your most recent post, it does not need to be interleaved with that text and is, in fact, _easier_ to deal with if put at the top where it is most easily seen and read.] Randall Schulz On Tuesday 01 March 2005 14:48, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Tue, 01 Mar 2005, by rschulz@sonic.net:
Theo,
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 14:13, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Tue, 01 Mar 2005, by g.lams@itcilo.org:
Hi
Thanks for the reply.
Do not toppost again please, it's a pita to keep threads orderly that way.
Why not leave it to your mail software to keep threads orderly?
I don't know about yours, but my MUA isn't able to repair topposts, and I do not call a inconsiderate and lazy toppost orderly.
This dogmatic insistence that top-posting is always wrong is just mindlessness. Sometimes top-posting is the best choice.
No, it is not. It might seem so for the poster because it saves a few seconds of *his* "precious" time, but the next replier might have to repair the broken post, to make sense of what *he* has to say, thereby being forced to invest much more time on that post than strictly neccessary. This is a mailing *list*, meaning that (generaly speaking) more then 2 people are involved in a discussion. To keep any disccussion sane it is vital that everybody uses the same set of rules, and unless I'm mistaken; replying under a quote and trimming excess material is still the preferred SOP here.
Theo