Josep M. Fontana wrote:
Sorry about the top-posting. Sometimes it seems that a little
top-posting might make things easier (I hate to have to go through
long quotes) but you are totally right, netiquette is netiquette.
To all the people who say "Never top-post", I say never say never --
there are exceptions to every rule, except the rule about there always
being exceptions. But 99% of the time, comments should follow the quote
they are commenting on, like a conversation:
> comment
reply
> comment
reply
The point you make about long quotes is also very important. Having to
scroll, and scroll, and scroll, and SCROLL through pages and pages of
quoted text to get to a single comment at the end is very annoying,
sometimes more annoying than top-posting. I often get so fed up I'll
give up and move on to the next email -- I have a *lot* of emails to
wade through, many of them (like this list) are a labour of love and I
don't get paid a cent for reading them, and if I have to work hard just
to reach the relevant text, I will often decide that if the sender
couldn't be bothered trimming his quoting, he obviously didn't think his
post was worth spending an extra 2 seconds making it readable, so why
should I spend any extra time reading it?
Failure to trim the quoting down to the parts that are actually relevant
is equally as thoughtless as needless top-posting. If the delete key on
your keyboard is broken, then say so, otherwise use it.
End of rant. Thank you.
--
Steven
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