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Hi Benjamin, What is also ironic is that often those people who whinge aboot top-posting also happen to remove all previous posters' signatures, and those that the mailing list applies. This helps keep the email size down by removing (now) unnecessary fluff. - HiltonT On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 04:48, Benjamin H. Henry wrote: > I'd have to agree. I don't want to scroll down through a bunch of > conversation that I've already read. That said, post on top or bottom for a > first reply, but follow the pattern started after that. > > What's ironic is that the people whining about top posters seem to have > outrageously long signatures! > > On Monday 16 February 2004 11:13 am, John Voigt wrote: > > Actually, I find it a little irritating that we seem to have netiquette > > police here. Even more irritating that they seem to think that bottom > > posting is the only acceptable way as I actually prefer top posting since > > most times I just read the original post and really don't need to wade > > through it again to get to the "answer". And it's most irritating when > > someone conveniently rearranges what I've said under the guise of "fixing" > > my top posting. That said I usually try and be nice and bottom post since > > that's what some in here seem to prefer (though I sometimes forget and I > > didn't this time just to make a point) and all you have to do with outlook > > is set your format to "plain text" and it will format your reply with the > > little > char in front of each line rather than the stupid long vertical > > lines outlook usually uses. You can then put your reply anywhere you want. > > > > For longer posts with several points it's also better for most people > > reading replies to "middle post" answering points inline. > > > > Anyway, please folks let's stop criticizing peoples posting habits and > > concentrate on the content of what they have to say - seems a lot more > > productive to me. Nobody really needed to waste time reading this crap I > > just wrote and it has nothing to do with m0n0wall. > > > > John Voigt, President > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Brandon Holland" <brandon at cookssaw dot com> > > To: <m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch> > > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 10:31 AM > > Subject: [m0n0wall] Top/Bottom Posting > > > > > How do you correctly bottom post in MS Outlook? > > > Brandon Holland (Brandon at Cookssaw dot com) -- Regards, Hilton Travis Phone: +61-(0)7-3343-3889 Manager, Quark AudioVisual Phone: +61-(0)419-792-394 Quark Computers http://www.QuarkAV.com/ (Brisbane, Australia) http://www.QuarkAV.net/ Open Source Projects: http://www.ares-desktop.org/ http://www.mamboband.org/ Non Linear Video Editing Solutions & Digital Audio Workstations Network Administration, SmoothWall Firewalls, NOD32 AntiVirus Conference and Seminar AudioVisual Production and Recording War doesn't determine who is right. War determines who is left. |