IC... interesting... I've already taught myself to go to the bottom of a post or email and start reading... or maybe it was automatic since that's the way it's always worked... as a matter of fact a lot of organizations who render tech support request that you include all previous emails and you have to start at the top... otherwise, you will have to scroll paste 10, 20, 30, or more pages to get to a place to put your latest request for aide... and then they will have to do the same thing to get to the bottom so that they can see what you want... I will try to do it that way from now on... thanks for the tip... Most sincerely, "For GOD so LOVED the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever should believe in him should not perish but have everlasting live" - John 3:16 GOD's Holy BIBLE
-----Original Message----- From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 10:28 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: What is Top-Post??? Daniel L. McGrew wrote: > Please explain to me what top-post is??? > It's when your reply to an email is at the very top of the message. It's just backwards from the way you read everything else in the world (in English, that is), and is largely the result of Microsoft email clients (Outlook, Outlook Express) defaulting to that position, thereby training an entire generation of computer users THE WRONG WAY of replying to email. Your reply should go below the material you're replying to, interspersing your replies as necessary to multiple items. As in: > I write this Topic 1 item. Your response to Topic 1 goes here. > I write this Topic 2 item. Your response to Topic 2 goes here. > I write this Topic 3 item. Your response to Topic 3 goes here. This way, when someone else joins the conversation (such as someone searching the archives), they can start reading at the top of the email and read downwards, just like they read every other document they've ever come across their entire life. You should also trim out excess, non-relevant material. (See how I trimmed out your sig, and the email you included at the bottom of your top-posted message?) Also, on this email list, people generally don't want you to CC: the people who wrote whatever you're replying to. CC:ing them causes them to get two identical copies of the same email (notice how you only got one copy of this message? That's because I did not CC: you). Just reply to "debian-user@lists.debian.org", and they'll get the message without it being duplicated. (Some people want CC:s, but they'll request them in such a case.) -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]