Jeroen van Aart wrote: > Kevin wrote: >> Archives for one. > > If you'd be reading archives wouldn't you have access to the whole > thread to begin with?
Not always, I've had instanced where the archive was missing messages or was completely unusable with thousands of messages and their threads on one page. Ever try searching the sf.net mail archives? not fun. >> Also because some people DO want to see the whole message, especially >> with technical discussions. > > And some people don't. > >> I would rather have more information that I don't necessarily need than >> not having enough information. > > I would rather have a response where quoting is done sporadically and in > a sensible manner as to retain the context. Of course this requires a > bit more effort, but not that much more. And it will help in actually > forming your thoughts and writing them down in in a concise manner. It > helps to keep things readable and prevent alienating and/or annoying > quite a number of people. In a perfect world.... :) > I'm not trying to tell someone what to do. It's just my natural response > to delete top posted emails (especially with a lot of quoted bloat) unread. I don't have a problem with top-posting...when it's used right. I asked Paul to not top-post because he was doing it inside a thread where everyone else was bottom-posting and it broke the flow making it harder to reply. This thread got a bit more out of hand that i expected, i should know better than to poke the hive with a stick...*sigh* Kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
