[NTLUG:Discuss] list etiquette

[terry]

Paul Ingendorf wrote:

>I would like to try and add some light to the "netiquette" of email.  Most
>people take it for granted that all e-mail top posted, newsgroups are bottom
>posted.  
>
I disagree.  In most cases, top posting to regular email is just as 
confusing as it is to newsgroup email.

>It's just the standard most are accustomed to.  I personally don't
>feel that as a discussion list any of this list should be archived at all.
>
Why not?

>I'm sure is the only reason for the bottom posting request as it makes it
>easier to read from top to bottom following the series of events.
>
Right!

>
>Just my 2 cents on the top/bottom issue.  As for the MIX posts sometimes it
>is prudent to post in such a manner.  It is very subjective and as such I
>wouldn't worry to much about people who use this method to it's limits.  
>
I'll agree that once in a while, it makes sense to top post, but mostly 
not.  
Only if you consider your comment to supersede and null and void all 
others, which is a rare case.

[Whether the list is archived or not doesn't matter],  we should do our 
best to make it appear coherent [to all], and bottom posting is the best 
way to do that, "...as it makes it easier to read from top to bottom 
following the series of events."

[Especially] when contributing to mail lists and newsgroups, we should 
think of others who are reading and trying to gain information.

 Is it any harder to bottom post? [No]       So why is it such a 
difficult issue? [It's not.]

>I personally find it annoying but ---<snip>------<snip>---
>  
>
Me too.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org]On
>Behalf Of Richard Geoffrion
>Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 10:32 AM
>To: discuss at ntlug.org
>Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] list etiquitte
>
>
><rant>
>yup...I just checked the ntlug.org website for posting guidelines....so it's
>not just me..
>
>See...I've come to accept that some people are going to top post while
>other's will bottom post.  This seems to create a MIX post, as it were.
>But  I'm somewhat tolerant of that....but geez people!  If you're gonna MIX
>post, do you HAVE to re-quote the entire 'mixed' thread in each and every
>message?
>
>Some of these threads recently (lightning, lightening, and cheapy computers)
>have been VERY active and VERY overquoted.
>
>At the risk of creating waves...let me invite everyone to  <snip> out the
>redundant text.  We KNOW what the topic is about!
>
></rant>
>
>oh...and if you'd like, you could all bottom quote! :)
>
>For those using/forced to use MSOE for email, you can download Quotefix
>(http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/) to solve most all your
>posting netiquette needs.
>
>--
>Richard
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