On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 09:32:15AM -0600, Von Fugal wrote: > Properly trimmed responses will have the reply, the context to the > reply, and even the many generations of context.
So what does that mean for our thread, where initially, it started out as someone looking for a job, morphed into whether or not you should you should reply to the list if you're interested or reply to the poster, then into top-posting versus bottom-posting. Most of which has been lost. So, now I get to find the email where Levi rebuked the thread, and more if I want to see where Stuart knee-jerked. If everyone had top posted, regardless of the lengeth of the mail, I would only have to pull up one message to find it, versus many. > It contains whatever > the poster felt relevant to his reply. Proper trimmers take thought of > what is relevant, and include it, while simultaneously discarding that > which is not relevant. I have jumped into archives of both top-posting > and trim-posting and the trimmed messages are way way easier to get into > than the top posted ones. For starters, on the top posted message, you > have to read BACKWARDS!!! Drives me nuts! It might drive you nuts, but when people have been in the thread the entire time, it's a non-issue. You're already aware of what has been said in the thread, so reading the reply at the top is no big deal. When you've just entered the thread, mid-thread, then I agree that top-posting is highly annoying, due to how you must read the email to catch up. > Trimmed messages I can start > at the top, skip paragraph by paragraph until I find something new or > interesting, and keep on going down to the reply. On the lists I'm in, I've never seen anyone keep anything more than the previous reply. So, jumping in mid-thread, I get the wonderful opporunity of reading several mails along that thread to catch up. -- . o . o . o . . o o . . . o . . . o . o o o . o . o o . . o o o o . o . . o o o o . o o o
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