Re: [Mid] messages and formatting

Actually top posting makes the conversation go faster and make more sense
to me since I don't have to wade through lines of uncut commentary. I can
open a post, read and move on or answer. I'm on a couple of lists where
top posting (and cutting extraneous text and posting in plain text only)
are mandatory and I must say those lists are joy to read. Personally I
hate having to scroll through old posts to get to someone's new
comments. I really hate when people break it down bit by bit adding their
comments after someone's lines, and then posting a few more lines and
commenting etc. etc. ad nauseum. Normally conversation doesn't flow that way.
Avacyn

> More important to me than that, though, is a request that people:
> > (1) clip the bloody messages being responded to, and
> > (2) stop top-posting; it makes following conversations difficult when
>the
> > replies are *on top* of the subject, when other commentary is properly
>interlaced.
>
>This is a judgement call, actually. There are times when top posting works
>best and others, like this, when it's better to reply at the bottom. I do
>believe that clipping of messages will alleviate concerns about top or
>bottom placement.
>
>So, let me re-iterate: do clip those messages to just the important thought
>you wish to reply to or comment on.

From: Alywn <avacyn@earthlink.net>
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Received on Thu Oct 9 15:35:42 2003