Jos van Kan wrote:
John E. Perry schreef:
Why might bottom-posting be self-defeating?
See?
Errrm... no.
OK, how about some illustration so even you can understand it -- a very brief glance at the archives shows these, which are not even among the worst offenses that I can recall: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2009-09/msg00163.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2009-09/msg00221.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2009-09/msg00267.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2009-09/msg00549.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2009-09/msg00574.html All these messages contain dozens to hundreds of quoted lines, of which only a few are at all relevant; any editing has been done by previous, better behaved posters. Sometimes what you finally find at the end is worth reading; frequently not. I generally just dump a message that doesn't have a reply in the first dozen or so lines, unless I'm anxious for real help or information from the thread. Granted, opensuse's members are generally better behaved than many lists', but we have plenty of offenders here, too. It's really bad when you get a digest of a particularly poorly behaved list like gumstix-users. There are frequently thousands of lines in such a digest, almost all mindless quoting of something that has already been quoted several times in the current digest. But there are plenty of misbehavers here, too. And before you get started on me, I _do_ observe the list etiquette, even though I recognize the validity of Ms. Walsh's argument. I also recognize the validity of and bow to the community's desires. What do I, personally, like to see? In order: --inline posting, properly edited --bottom posting, properly edited <- this message, and Jos's --top posting --inline posting, sloppily edited. --inline posting, unedited. --bottom posting, sloppily edited --bottom posting, unedited Sometimes variations are appropriate among the first three. I find it hard to imagine a justification for any of the last four, but there are lots of them here. John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org