Re: Extra data in posts

From: captgoodnight captgoodnight <captgoodnight@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue Jul 11 2006 - 21:07:15 AKDT

Gulp

>From: Adam bultman <adamb@glaven.org>
>CC: aklug@aklug.org
>Subject: Re: Extra data in posts
>Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:52:42 -0800
>
>I'm sorry, I missed that. Did you actually write anything? I don't see
>anything in the first inch of the message ;)
>
>Adam
>
>James Zuelow wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 July 2006 20:00, Greg Madden wrote:
> >
> >
> >> One reason for bottom posting is for lists, like Debians, that are
> >> archived. Researching a topic and finding the thread that follows
>bottom
> >> posting is an easier way to read an entire thread on a topic.
> >>
> >> That said, when I am doing more personal email and already what I said
> >> they said , a top post is quick and easy to get the latest response.
> >>

Gulp

> >
> > Top posters tend to leave the trailers on the bottom of their messages.
>The lines on some mailing lists that say "to unsubscribe..."
> >
> > After a short time you get a bunch of those collected at the bottom of
>the message (which nobody is reading, since they're only reading the top
>few lines), which just wastes bandwidth -- especially when the top posts
>are all one line 'me too!' responses.
> >
> > Bottom posters and especially comment inserters tend to clean up a
>little more, since they are more likely to have read the message they're
>replying to.
> >
> > Anyway - it used to be that bottom posting was The Right Thing To Do
>(TM), especially on usenet, and top posting was for people without
>netiquette. Then we got Outlook - it fights you when you want to kill
>HTML, it fights you when you want to bottom post, it fights you when you
>want to (gasp!) insert comments...
> >
> > Now we have people who won't even read this message because it's bottom
>posted!
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Gulp

Nope, it's all the same stream. Really, I promise...

--eddie

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