On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:09:26 -0400, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> My usual practice, actually, is to edit and interpolate, as if we were > having a conversation. (Did you mean interleave rather than interpolate?) Yes, that is the way things should be. Anyone who bottom posts without appropriate trimming or posts just a big block of text without proper interleaving also should be taught how to reply correctly. >>> ... I have my email ordered most-recent-first, and it saves me a >>> _lot_ of time, whether the individual emails are top- or >>> bottom-posted! ... >> I have my mailing lists threaded, and it's nice to be able to just >> read the first message in a thread and tell my mail reader that I'm >> not interested in the rest of the messages in the thread. I can't >> imagine how you would do that with most-recent-first. If you just >> read the latest message in a thread and find that you're not >> interested, you can't just kill the thread because you don't know if >> that message is off on a tangent, or if you really aren't interested >> in that thread. > You do it your way. I'll do it mine. OK with you? Sure. I just wrote what I did because you brought up how you preferred your way and that other people should try it, and I just explained why I like my way. I really couldn't care less how you read your email. > I bottom post in this forum (mostly) because it's the norm here; > etiquette probably requires that we accommodate the lowest common > denominator. Sure. I'm not on any lists where top-posting is the norm, but when I correspond with other people on a personal basis, where the thread has no branches, and so it's easy to keep track of the conversation, I tend to write like a regular letter -- the pen and paper kind. (Why bother keeping the context at all when the recipient already knows it?) > But don't get all righteous about it, for heaven's sake! I don't believe I was. I was just trying to give reasons for why I think that top-posting (in a mailing list context) is not a good thing to do. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]