Re: [Mid] messages and formatting

Giulia wrote:

> I'd like to second the clipping request and veto the
> top posting request.
>
> I really hate having to scroll clear down to the bottom
> of a message to find the response.

But, Giulia, if the messages are clipped to only what is appropriate, there is
no need to "Scroll down" -- no more than a line or two of what is being
responded to is needed (as demonstrated here, which is considered "good
netiquette) for the subject. This puts the response in a proper, and logical,
context.

It all comes down to courtesy, in my mind -- and a desire to be able to make sense.

A whole discussion needn't be -- and shouldn't be -- repeated over and over.
This is what top-posting does, as people forget to clip what is below their
response, and it builds up.

Frankly, it's why I dropped Midbridge once or twice before and stopped reading
it altogether. I don't understand how people can't understand that example one,
below, makes more sense than example two:

---------------------------
EXAMPLE ONE:

> Are you going to be able to go to Crown?

I wish I could, but I won the lottery and have to pick up my new Jaguar.

EXAMPLE TWO:

I wish I could, but I won the lottery and have to pick up my new Jaguar.

> Are you going to be able to go to Crown?
-----------------------------

Now consider that there are series of questions and topics. How else do you deal
with that but interlacing the text? And then the flow is destroyed by posting a
response at the top of the subject.

Effingham

From: "Anthony J. Bryant" <ajbryant@indiana.edu>
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Received on Thu Oct 9 15:36:32 2003