Hallo Kenneth, On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 17:36:30 -0400GMT (3-7-03, 23:36 +0200, where I live), you wrote:
KSR> I have to say in this situation, I definitely prefer top posting KSR> over bottom posting I'd prefer trimming quotes above top posting. I might be generalizing, but I've never received a top posted message with trimmed quotes. What I receive on a regular base are messages like this: ,----- [ ] | Yes | 2 | Tomorrow | | Followed by a fully quoted message containing three questions. `----- And to be honest that sucks. That would even suck on a five lines screen, since you need to scroll down to find the message. Unless of course you still know what message you sent. But since I've got a rather large output of messages and some of them top posters take their time before checking their mail, there's no way that I'm going to know for all messages what I asked, let alone the sequence of my questions (Presuming my questions get answered in the same sequence). BTW You started your question as an answer to another thread. That's not the best thing to do for the following reason. The Bat is able to thread messages properly, in order to see what I mean, just select the folder where you're storing the messages from this list. Go to the menu: view - view threads by - references. Now you'll see that all messages are lined up after the message to which they're first, second (or whatever) level replies to. You started what's essentially a new thread by replying to another message. That means it shows up as listed in another thread. Since people sometimes skip messages in threads they don't consider interesting (for lack of time). They might skip your message too, since they're not aware of the newly started thread. So next time you'd do yourself a favor by sending a new message in stead of a reply, because you're reaching a larger audience and one of those might have the answer you've been waiting for. This is not not meant to criticize you, but only to help you appreciate the options TB offers and to be able to get more effect out of your efforts. -- Groetjes, Roelof ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
