John Wildberger wrote:
Bottom postings are *most annoying* when responding to a longwinded text by just saying one or two words, or a short sentence with little or no substance.IIRC there is a general rule that a reply to a mail should constitute no more than 50% (maximum) of the original post, thus allowing for interspersing as John says. Longwinded messages copied in their entitety with "me too" at the bottom are extremely annoying.
Personally I prefer the interspersing approach, or the bottom posting for public forums. Simply because this follows a basic rule of temporal mechanics: Cause and *then* effect. An examiner would not read a student's paper, with answers first and then look to see what question had just been answered. With interspersing you can follow an easy thread of "he said then she said then I said" etc. On that note however another annoyance is quoting the entire thread in every post going back six or seven replies. This might be handy for someone new to the group but it's extremely annoying to those of us who just want to read the latest comments, and not wade through the history. Personally I keep it to my reply and the last person's comments, as I have here. Rarely I may go back one stage further if clarity is served by doing so.
Kind regards,
Julian _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
