Some rather rude generalizations offered there, but be that as it may:-) Of what use is the preview feature, on virtually all email readers, when all that is being previewed is regurgitated topping? For that reason alone I would probably not even have opened this, but since I just joined this list I tend to take a bit of extra time to look at more.
Regards/Roger, in Bangkok one who takes great exception to being characterized as "obnoxious", "sloppy" or "lazy" ... shame on you ... ;-) On 11/17/07, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote: > > stu seven wrote: > > + ... someone has taken the time to complain about "top posting"... > > it's "poor etiquette", they say. > > > > Top posting... a favored style of many... is a fast and > > convenient way of replying to informal message board or email > > messages... its eliminates the need for scrolling through long > > messages to find the reply, or, ever find a spot to type a reply > > at all. > > > Aside from what Andreas pointed out about top-posting, it is a sloppy > and lazy way to post. People post without realizing what they are saying > has already been said, and emails get massive because nobody bothers to > delete what is below their reply. Most of the time you end up seeing the > content being an impossible mish-mash of content and subjects. > > When you are looking for something in the Archives, it becomes > impossible to find anything. > If someone wants to get obnoxious and top-post anyway, I suspect they > will find their posts will eventually be ignored. > > Greg > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20071117/2a12326c/attachment.html
