ive been topping the posts sorry about that..new at this. wont do that again thanx Sunny..i got it.
To Michael, et al: And Yet I have someone else getting angry IF you do NOT TOP post, So What gives??? IF you do not top post and it is to someone you need to communicate with, you are wrong and if you do others get huffy because you do!!! I refuse to go nuts, and WILL top post my emails, with my newsgroups bottom posted!..... :-) Michael wrote:
ive been topping the posts sorry about that..new at this. wont do that again
thanx Sunny..i got it.
On 06/01/06, John Boyle
To Michael, et al: And Yet I have someone else getting angry IF you do NOT TOP post, So What gives??? IF you do not top post and it is to someone you need to communicate with, you are wrong and if you do others get huffy because you do!!! I refuse to go nuts, and WILL top post my emails, with my newsgroups bottom posted!..... :-) Michael wrote:
ive been topping the posts sorry about that..new at this. wont do that again
thanx Sunny..i got it.
Well I'm not going to get all huffy whatever way you choose to post. Do your own thing. I only get upset when people don't trim their posts appropriately. By that I mean leaving miles of indents and trailing text then giving a one word answer... grrrrrrrrrr :-/ ;-) Personally, though, I will continue to post below the original question whether it's a mailing list or a newsgroup (I've never been told not to in a NG in all the years I have been using them). I just feel that if somebody asks me a question I then answer it. I'm not psychic so I can't answer the question before it's asked :-) -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Xmas may be over but, PLEASE DON'T drink and drive you'll make it to the next one that way. Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR
I refuse to go nuts, and WILL top post my emails, with my newsgroups bottom posted!..... :-)
Personally, though, I will continue to post below the original question whether it's a mailing list or a newsgroup (I've never been told not to in a NG in all the years I have been using them). I just feel that if somebody asks me a question I then answer it. I'm not psychic so I can't answer the question before it's asked :-)
Personally, I agree. I saw the following as another person's sig. I feel it's on point ... -- A: Because it disturbs the logical flow of a message. Q: Why is top posting a sloppy form of writing? -- Marshall Lake -- mlake@mlake.net -- http://mlake.net
On Friday 06 January 2006 6:21 pm, Marshall Lake wrote:
Personally, though, I will continue to post below the original question whether it's a mailing list or a newsgroup (I've never been told not to in a NG in all the years I have been using them). I just feel that if somebody asks me a question I then answer it. I'm not psychic so I can't answer the question before it's asked :-)
Personally, I agree. I saw the following as another person's sig. I feel it's on point ...
-- A: Because it disturbs the logical flow of a message. Q: Why is top posting a sloppy form of writing?
Further, there's a lot of top posted mail that doesn't get answered. After awhile, some of us just delete it. Fred -- Paid purchaser of ALL SuSE Linux releases since 6.x
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 23:05 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Friday 06 January 2006 6:21 pm, Marshall Lake wrote:
Personally, though, I will continue to post below the original question whether it's a mailing list or a newsgroup (I've never been told not to in a NG in all the years I have been using them). I just feel that if somebody asks me a question I then answer it. I'm not psychic so I can't answer the question before it's asked :-)
Personally, I agree. I saw the following as another person's sig. I feel it's on point ...
-- A: Because it disturbs the logical flow of a message. Q: Why is top posting a sloppy form of writing?
Further, there's a lot of top posted mail that doesn't get answered. After awhile, some of us just delete it.
Couldn't have said it better myself. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
John Boyle wrote:
To Michael, et al: And Yet I have someone else getting angry IF you do NOT TOP post, So What gives??? IF you do not top post and it is to someone you need to communicate with, you are wrong and if you do others get huffy because you do!!! I refuse to go nuts, and WILL top post my emails, with my newsgroups bottom posted!..... :-)
Please activate brain v. 1.2 or higher to find the answer. In business email you are often asked to attach the entire previous message because the mail clients typically used in business are too stupid to organize mail threads or mails are answered by a group that sometimes doesn't have the previous mails available and are glad if you include the entire thread. In mailing lists where you ask for someone's advice you are asking someone to spend time to fix your problem for free. Often this someone is a professional sysadmin with little free time. Isn't it only fair to make it as easy and comfortable as possible for him to answer your mail and see what you are refering to? Sandy -- List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com
On Friday 06 January 2006 04:05 pm, Sandy Drobic wrote: <snip>
In business email you are often asked to attach the entire previous message because the mail clients typically used in business are too stupid to organize mail threads or mails are answered by a group that sometimes doesn't have the previous mails available and are glad if you include the entire thread.
Though this is going way OT, I concur. I tend to bottom post on usenet and in the mailing lists. On my work emails however, I tend to top post, simply because the previous email is usually attached and the recipient generally knows what he/she wrote. OTOH, if I'm writing a series of responses, I'll bottom post and snip accordingly. -- kai www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part
On Friday, January 06, 2006 @ 5:05 PM, John Boyle wrote:
To Michael, et al: And Yet I have someone else getting angry IF you do NOT TOP post, So What gives??? IF you do not top post and it is to someone you need to communicate with, you are wrong and if you do others get huffy because you do!!! I refuse to go nuts, and WILL top post my emails, with my newsgroups bottom posted!..... :-) Michael wrote:
ive been topping the posts sorry about that..new at this. wont do that again
thanx Sunny..i got it.
Top posting is like having a book with no table of contents and chapters in reverse order. You finish chapter 5 and then say "ok, now I need to go back through 1 page at a time and try to find chapter 4. Greg Wallace
On Saturday 07 January 2006 13:56, Greg Wallace wrote:
On Friday, January 06, 2006 @ 5:05 PM, John Boyle wrote:
To Michael, et al: And Yet I have someone else getting angry IF you do NOT TOP post, So What gives??? IF you do not top post and it is to someone you need to communicate with, you are wrong and if you do others get huffy because you do!!! I refuse to go nuts, and WILL top post my emails, with my newsgroups bottom posted!..... :-)
Top posting is like having a book with no table of contents and chapters in reverse order. You finish chapter 5 and then say "ok, now I need to go back through 1 page at a time and try to find chapter 4.
Greg Wallace
Well said! It really comes into its own when you are searching an email list for an answer and trying to decipher what people were saying. Try it someday and you will find out why top posting is really really stupid as you have no way of working out what was said when. -- Regards, Graham Smith
On Friday 06 January 2006 17:05, John Boyle wrote:
To Michael, et al:
Thanks for letting us know. <PLONK> -- Ragheads and illegal aliens...the world's cockroaches. When a person's first acts in America are to illegally sneak in, lie about their status, obtain fraudulent identification, deceive public services and solicit an itinerant job in the underground economy, people have a right to ask what sort of neighbor they might become.
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