On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 11:07 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > So live and let live. If a thread starts with top posting continue > that way, if its bottom posting, continue that way, if you see a need > to interleave, put something like "Replies inline ...".
How does a thread "start with top-posting"? Threads start with a message, which people reply to. It's the reply that's top or bottom posted, not the message. Often several people reply in parallel, creating a multi-branched tree. By your reasoning, some of these will be top-posted and some not, and apparently this is OK. I fail to see the logic of this. It makes more sense to keep to a common set of guidelines. If the guidelines say that top-posting is OK, then it's OK. If they say it's not, it's not. When no formal guidelines exist (such as on this list) it all gets messy, but note that no-one is enforcing rules here, they're just arguing positions. > Sorry if I sound offensive, but some peoples intolerance and bigotry > about such a simple thing as top/bottom posting gets me worked up - > not the top/bottom posting itself! Just because you don't care about such things it doesn't mean that others are intolerant or bigoted because they do care about them. You need to be more tolerant yourself about people's views on this. poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
