On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 22:32:58 at 10:32:58PM -0500, Price Technology (pricetech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > As to top posting, I guess it's like the "great taste / less > filling" debate, it will never be settled. But I can see where it > can be annoying when the answer appears before the question, > especially when the discussion gets several layers deep. > Consistency would help, but then your asking half the population to > go against their grain. Well, something that should be consistently reminded to everybody is "top-post, bottom-post, through-post, post in another dimension, whatever, but for heaven's sake always CUT the uninteresting/ irrelevant parts of the original message". Forcing the mail server and the network to retransmit 100 lines of message to hundreds/thousands of users (many of which still pay per minute/byte), just to add one "I agree" line is *bad*, regardless of the position of that line. Common sense for when and how to ignore this rule applies in some cases, of course, but... Ciao, Marco Fioretti -- Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. it's the only thing that ever has. (read on /.) -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
