On Monday 19 March 2018 06:32:52 Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 06:09:24AM -0700, William Morder wrote: > > By the way, the TDE mailing list mods ask that we don't top-post. > > I don't think they mean to bottom-post at the end of two or three pages > of quoted text. > > I think they mean to interleave your responses immediately after the > relevant quoted text, trimming anything irrelevant. > > Top-posting is often annoying, but I can tell you it's not as annoying > as having to scroll down past thirty pages of quoting up to a dozen > > levels deep: > > > > > > > > > > > > > blah blah blah blah... > > to finally see the one and only line of new content: > > "Me too!!!" That's true, but then I usually try to cut out the extraneous stuff. My own posts can get long-winded, but I expect to be edited down to human size by others. I think it's fine to comment after the other person's points, one-at-a-time. It keeps the flow of thought together. In other words, me too. That particular response would have made more sense at the end; I wasn't pointing it out to be a jerk. I only care for reasons of comprehension; and that particular person had some useful information to offer. Otherwise, I politely ignore people who don't follow the rules; I myself don't make the rules here, and usually can be found on the other side of that line. Of late we have been going totally off-topic a lot, for which I must admit mea maxima culpa. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
