On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 10:55:42PM -0500, eactiv...@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 3/3/2009 7:26:58 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, > l...@red4est.com writes: > > Marnie BTW, niggly little point, but you were being pedantic the other day > about minty. :-) Could you change your email previously seen lines from # to > > I find it hard to read around all those #.
I changed it back. I liked # as an indent character because it made it easier to see which lines were mine. But, no big deal, it was just one character in my .muttrc file. > I also find comments made at > bottom or top easier to read than inline. It's funny, because your having comments at the bottom makes it a lot harder for me to read. If people top post, at least once I get past their comments, I can just hit tab or 'j' and go to the next post, with your posts, I have to scroll down, making sure I don't scroll to far. And since you don't mark your reply to lines, it's not obvious where the original text was. > Most people only do inline on a long post. Hoo boy! You would not believe how badly I've gotten bitched out on other mailing lists for occasionally top posting. It's one of those netiquette issues that separate the people who have been on the net awhile, from the newcomers. If you want to do some interesting cultural research look up the phrase "eternal September". Mind you, I'm not picking on you because you have an AOL account, it's just an interesting look at how a culture that had developed rules of etiquette over decades was affected by a sudden influx of people who had no idea that there even was such a thing as cultural norms in that context. In short, for most of the 35 or so years of the internet, top posting, or bottom posting, has been considered impolite, that what one should do is trim away anything not relevent and reply in cotext. -- Photographs are like sentences, the best ones have both subjects and verbs. Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
