Scott Brim <scott.brim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > btw top-posting is not the spawn of evil demons, it's perfectly > appropriate in some situations, e.g. this one, where the original mail > is just attached for possible reference. Aha! (Scott can take care of himself without feeling the need to retaliate; so I'll respond to his email...) Top-posting which copies the _entire_ post being responded to is definitely the spawn of evil demons! It's also incredibly annoying to those of us trying to follow high- bandwidth lists like this one. Fortunately, I can see 80 lines at a glance as I read this list in "mutt"; so it's not Scott's mail which annoys me -- it's the ones where two folks go back and forth without ever trimming the part "quoted for possible reference", and I can't remember whether _both_ of them top- post. Folks, please: Let's not quote entire emails "for possible reference" in a high- volume list. Those of us worth reaching know how to use threaded email clients, and we can _very_ easily find the message you're replying to. Better yet, don't quote any more than the bare minimum to set context, whether you top-post, bottom-post, or respond inline. (Myself, I find it much easier to follow in-line comments, so I take the effort to post that way. I'll be happy to pay attention to private emails cricicizing me for this, but I _will_not_ participate in a public flame-war about how dreadful this practice is.) -- John Leslie <john@xxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf