On 10 Mar 2005 at 15:20, Maciej enczykowski wrote:
> I find bottom-posting to be annoying, since when I open the mail all I see
> is the useless quote...
I'm not sure a discussion of personal preferences will really accomplish
much. Everyone has their own set. Absent firm dictates from the list
moderator, I tend to expect everyone to follow those preferences.
However, I think there are still plenty of us around who have been doing
this long enough to have internalized many of the practices recommended
in RFC 1855 (FYI 28), dated as it is.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html
My personal pet peeve, especially since I often subscribe to digests, are
all the people who respond with a single line or two at the top and do
not trim any of the preceding thread, sometimes leaving screen after
screen of old text through which I have to scroll to get to the next
message in the digest. Four or five of those in a row and I often just
delete the digest with the rest unread. I'm sure I miss some things I
would find interesting that way, but it's not worth the pain of wading
through the 'noise'.
Scott
