[bf1942] HTML Posting sucks [OT]

[David Harrison]

As this has debate occurs on every mailing list on the entire internets 
at least once a year, maybe we could clue it up a bit to prevent those 
of us that have limited attention spans from having to go through it yet 
again?

Top posting, bottom posting, and mid-posting are all a personal 
preference and you're simply not going to change people's minds whether 
its by rational debate, name calling, or bribing.

-- david



---- Original Message ----
From: "David Stevens" <dave at netdefense.ca>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 9:38 AM
Subject: RE: [bf1942] HTML Posting sucks

> I guess we all have our own pet peeves..  Personally, whether you
> post on the top of the e-mail, or on the bottom bothers me not.
>
> I would have people snip the lines that don't mean anything, and I
> would prefer not to have to delete 700 > marks from the beginning of
> each line if it is quoteable.  However, for the most part, its not
> much work to scroll the wheel in the preview pane.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Flight 800 [mailto:Flight800 at Comcast.net]
> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 5:33 PM
> To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> Subject: RE: [bf1942] HTML Posting sucks
>
>> erm, but my own last message might be an exception to that
>> rule.  I guess
>> it's just when the only new text is _way_ at the bottom that
>> I ignore it.
>
> I hate having to scroll down first, just to read what you are
> replying to so that I can then scroll back up and understand your
> response.  If someone quotes an entire email and posts their response
> at the bottom, that's no better of course.  I tried long ago to get
> people posting correctly on the icculus lists, lost cause there...