Posting guidelines?

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 19:45 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> I top-post by old habit. When you're following a thread you don't need 
> to read the included text first. Also, no matter what "netiquette" says, 
> most people don't trim included text at all. So bottom posts end up a 
> screen or two or nine down. That makes reading a long thread very 
> tedious. I got all these habits years ago on usenet. For this mailing 
> list I'll use whatever is the consensus, though I'll continue to trim 
> included text.
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I find that if a thread goes into a few replies, you still have to see
'which' reply the top poster is replying to.

My biggest beef with top posters isn't the top posting as much as the
lack of bottom cleanup. If you are only replying to a portion or
portions of previous message, you can trim out the extraneous stuff,
insert commentary specifically in line where appropriate and target your
reply. I noticed that you cleaned up the bottom of your reply whereas ec
didn't bother. On average, bottom or in line posters will trim/clean
extraneous stuff considerably more frequently than top posters.

That said, I have learned to keep my mouth shut and just deal with it
since the important thing is the communication and not that people bow
to my OC needs.

Craig


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