On Friday 26 September 2003 11:32, Bart Garst wrote: > > If your goal is to communicate, do what the reader expects. > > This logic is flawed. I expect people to top post & in-line where > appropriate. Robert expects people to bottom post. We are both part of = the > same list so how can a person comply with this logic? In using this list, my goal is to get help from the members. *Most* = of=20 them seem to prefer bottom-posting so I bottom-post hoping that *most* of= the=20 members will consider my request. Of course, this is a lot easier when it's one-on-one. Then I do what= ever=20 it appears the other person prefers. --=20 Ed Skinner, ed@flat5.net, http://www.flat5.net/