-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi ~John,
@9-Feb-2003, 14:17 -0600 (20:17 UK time) ~John [j] in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have reformatted this message without the top posting because it is harder to work out what's going on in a vacuum. Please see below for a lecture on why it is preferable to *not* do that in this list. In terms of list rules you've ended up with far too many untrimmed quotes and not enough context. To put it succinctly - this is how your conversation appears: Terrible > how does it smell? >> My dog's got no nose. Anyway - back to the topic: PM>>>>> I'd like to submit my login name and password automatically PM>>>>> along with the URL. Any ideas if/how I could do that? (I have a new method to solve this and will reply further up the thread). ... <snip> >> I hit the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+Alt+S and it put the message in the >> outbox, then I sent them, however I got this error message back from >> Spamcop: >> "SpamCop encountered errors while saving spam for processing: >> SpamCop could not find your spam message in this email:" j> Is this how the reply template supposed to be setup? ... <snip> Your reply template has nothing to do with SpamCop submission, which uses a custom template built into the manual, hotkey triggered filter. If you have installed the filter correctly, it will format the message correctly. ** Stock essay about top posting. ** Top posting means that you put the cursor at the top of a reply and type everything you want to say there. Top posted replies make messages harder to read than they should be. When you are having a private conversation and you know what you're saying to an individual top posting has a certain validity (I still don't do it - I don't find it at all pleasant to read that way, but this isn't about my personal preferences). When you are in an environment where many readers and many topics are present at once, you force everyone to read your reply text (because it's at the top, it's seen first), think to themselves "What's that about then?", scroll down to read the quotes for context, think "Oh, I see... now I know what it's about, does that change anything in what I read first?", and scroll back up to read what you wrote in the light of improved context. It's much easier for the writer, yes. But email should be designed for the reader. A reply works better broken down conversationally: ___________________________________________________________________ > Someone makes this point.. (snipped) A reply is made with this response. >> A point made two messages back (snipped) > and this was said to make someone think Which leads to this summary. ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Only contextually relevant text remains. It is easy to read and follow the conversation without having to scroll up and down or think too hard or read more than once. Also, since the text is trimmed to the bare bones to facilitate the conversation, there's no worry about excess or untrimmed quotes. - -- Cheers -- .\\arck D Pearlstone -- List moderator TB! v1.63 Beta/6 on Windows 2000 5.0.2195 Service Pack 2 ' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1rc1-nr1 (Windows 2000) iD8DBQE+Rr0+OeQkq5KdzaARAnKiAKD23CwYQ/8v3gogblmm4y5RiiQdXACcCR9y ZzRPQeMrd28NmrfG6FcuxX0= =yv8t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
