Re: e-mail etiquette

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On Sunday 05 October 2003 11:36 am, Glenn Williams wrote:
> Hello, Red Hats:
>
> After reading several messages in this thread, I feel compelled to dump
> in my $.02 worth.
> Someone stated that he/she will _not_ reply to 'top post' messages.
>
> I am inclined to say that I will not _read_, much less reply to 'bottom
> posts.'  It makes no sense whatever to me to scroll through 50 lines of
> previously posted text, when 8 times out of ten, the subject is the
> only thing I need to see before reading the reply.

In many (most?) mail readers, hitting the space bar will scroll down 
through the message.
If you refuse to read bottom posts, you'll save yourself a lot of time, as 
99 percent of the list traffic obeys the general convention of bottom or 
inline posting.

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