-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 17:31:38 -0700, ___cliff rayman___ wrote: > replies at the bottom of an e-mail, require > users to scroll to read the reply if the entire message does not fit > into the view window. > this is clearly a waste of user time and keystrokes. If a message starts with a reply at the top, apparently the quote at the bottom is not needed at all. Or do you want the reader to switch back and forth between the reply at the top and the quote at the bottom? I doubt that. If there's nothing particular you refer to, don't quote anything at all. *But* quotes are important to maintain context. Many of the supporting subscribers, who read almost every message on a list and help with multiple problems in several threads at once, benefit from clever quoting and replies below short quotes. Else you can lose the overview easily. Complete quotes at the bottom are not needed, because unless a message is several weeks old, the reader is likely to still have the older messages in the mail folder (threading of messages helps here). > i am sure that many would benefit from a "top posting" world. :-) Only those who concentrate on their own thread(s) and who watch only for replies to their own message(s), benefit from top posting. For everyone else, top posting means extra effort. > if you top post, then your reply is readable without > having to scroll the > view window. Unfortunately, it's not suitable for the usual flow of communication: > question answer > question answer > question answer > quote reply > quote reply With top posting it would look like: answer answer answer reply reply > question > question > question > quote > quote Crap formatting. Increases the burden for the supporters who try to help others. > >Thanks. (also - try wrapping your lines at column 72, it works better > >for text oriented email clients. As you can see, your text gets pretty > >garbled, as above.) > > > my bad - this new e-mail client inherited most of my old settings, but > not this > one apparantly. thanks! Something's wrong with your messages. Each 2nd line contains only 2-4 words. That makes your paragraphs difficult to read. - -- Netiquette for Email Lists http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml Trim Down Your Quotes http://www.enabling.org/ia/celiac/netiquett.html#TRIM -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/OG++0iMVcrivHFQRAjWAAJ9OeIcwURVpjIDBBxflZ83MbpiWbwCfa8rm hH+SLXpenEPgcIwttcKHGQo= =R+so -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
