In order to provide another perspective (possibly less valid at that): On 9/16/2010 1:02 PM, Stuart Jansen wrote: > 1) Suits top post without trimming. Experienced Linux users trim and > context post. There are many who would (and do) also call this wasting a lot of time. I'm not personally one of them, but I see the validity in that viewpoint. I had a good discussion in #utah about this and my summary of that talk is that this is sometimes very detrimental to communicating accurately, and sometimes it's very important to achieve accurate communication. As with all communications, know your audience and pick and choose how to package your message to be best received.
A good rule of thumb might be that if you're talking to open source purists or linux users from a previous era, trim and bottom post. For mixed audiences or just modern email users, they tend to keep track of their email conversations better with a top-posting environment for whatever reason (the speculation of which is less important than the fact that it is so). -Tod Hansmann /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
