Hate to get in the flamewar, but I was corresponding with a lady on a
social site, and she said my bottom-posting drove her crazy! I didn't
even think about it, I'd been so well trained... :-)
Vaughn
Technomage_Hawke wrote:
> a majority of the lists I am on (about 100 in all) tend to top post or
> trim and respond to each point. granted, a lot of these lists are
> blind related, but some also deal with ham radio and various other
> topics of interest. I never said it was evil, just extremely frustrating.
>
> btw, see how my posts are trimmed to get rid of all but the last post?
> this has at least 2 advantages:
> 1. message length is short
> 2. the salient point I am responding to is preserved.
>
>
> On Aug 13, 2010, at 1:06 PM, mike@mjv.com <mailto:mike@mjv.com> wrote:
>
>> Not everyone? Let's say MOST. I've been on 70+ listservs for over a
>> decade and bottom-posters are extremely rare at best. If everyone
>> else is posting a certain way consistently, why suddenly say they're
>> wrong and demand posting the opposite way? I mean, what is right and
>> wrong with the difference between top and bottom posting as if one is
>> evil and the other good? In this case, majority rules. Trying to make
>> people do something different on one list than on all the other lists
>> is just ridiculous and disingenuous.
>>
>> Be well,
>> Mike in Zone 8, Texas
>>
>
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