Hello ETM, On Sat, 03 Aug 2002 22:22:55 -0400 GMT (04/08/02, 09:22 +0700 GMT), ETM wrote:
E> A file folder (in the US) runs with the oldest paper at the E> bottom and the current papers proceeding in chronological filing E> order to the top of the stack. Is this a country thing? No, this is done the same way the world over. That is also the reason why I top-reply in (my) business environment. I need the file complete. (Not all businesses work this way though, but that is not the point here.) But this here (TBUDL) is a discussion list, not a business file. You do not need to keep the legal proof together; what you want is to maintain a fluent conversation of several people on one subject. The easiest and most sensible way to do that is to quote the paragraph or sentence you want to reply to, and put your reply right under that. And, by the way, I do not remember the full thread every time, as you said you do in another posting. I am on several mailing lists. Please be a bit considerate and use the appraoch that is more sensible and efficient for mailing lists, not the one that makes sense in filing business cases. Thanks. What may be the difference between this list and the other lists you are on, those were people don't care about email format? Well, on this list here you have a lot of computer-savvy people, a number of which have been with email since it became commercially available, many maintain mailservers either for themselves or at ISP's, and the majority simply live and breath emails. A few years ago, the group "Emailaholics International" was born right out of the TB lists. We have a a lot of experience with email and a clear idea of how to use this medium most efficiently. We discussed this in again detail just a few months ago (please check the archives). When we see people posting inefficient replies (HTML, top-reply, no sig delimiter), we care about this, as it makes our life more difficult, but we also mention this to them in order to educate our fellow netizens. I actually unsubscribed from a mailing list once because I felt these people needed a course in "how do I write emails" - it drove me crazy. I feel very comfortable on the TB lists (I am subscribed to 6 of them at the moment), because people just know how to use their email client so that it is also a pleasure for the recipient to read their postings. No top-replies, no full-quotes, no HTML, and so on. The link to the netiquette page has already been posted, I believe. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Shopping tip: You can get shoes for 85 cents at bowling alleys. Message reply created with The Bat! 1.62/Beta1 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.61 FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/
