On Jul 24, 2011, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Walther wrote:
By the way, see the message above? See how the quoted text is
trimmed? See how there's no sign of the list footer quoted? See how
the thread of the message flows downward in the order that people
read?
This is how to post a readable message. Your top posted messages in
which ** YOU FAIL TO TRIM ANY QUOTED TEXT AT ALL** are rude and
inconsiderate to other members of the list.
Maybe you should be blaming the software vendors whose mail clients
invite users to post this way by positioning the cursor *above* the
quoted reply, a practice started (if I'm not mistaken) by Microsoft
and copied by Apple and Google, instead of berating users who had no
clue that their software was actively encouraging them to do things
considered obnoxious.
I don't like top-posting either, but your response was
inappropriate. Flaming people for being ignorant was something you
could get away with a couple decades ago before the Eternal
September, but we lost the numbers advantage a long time ago and now
must resort to gentler methods.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
http://xkcd.com/386/
If you really want people to stop top-posting, get Google, Apple, and
whoever else to fix their email clients.
Josh
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