From: "Rob Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi John, all > > "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > > [ top-posting fixed ] > > I'm wondering how much of an error, if any, people think this is? I > personally choose to top-post so that anybody reading through a thread > won't have to page to the end of each post to get to new content. Also > end-posting can be missed by those who don't think to look there! I > can find nothing in the group guidelines to support either method. > > I'd like to do what people prefer so, comments please...?
If you top post then I will have to scroll. And ... what's even worse ... fix your top-posting if I am to respond. You are replying to something, why would you put the reply first and the question next? Keep in mind that this is a mailing list, not a private communication. Therefore you should consider each mail to be (almost) selfcontained. I do not store the emails, I do not remember all the emails I've seen, I read most of them as they come so I can't even sort by thread and read the whole thread at once. Therefore I need to read the question before I know whether I'm interested in the answer and whether I could possibly extend it or correct it if it's wrong. Besides. It's NOT top-post versus bottom-post. If you quote a message properly (for my definition of properly) then your replies are interspersed with the original message. If there were several questions you SHOULD respond to each separately, not wait to the end of the message. That way YOU do not have to scroll. You do not have to look several times into the original message to make sure you did not forget one of the questions, you do not have to describe where in the code was the problem ... And you should ALWAYS delete evertthing that's not important in the original. Especialy the signatures. The way I do it is ... I scan the message quickly. If it sounds interesting and I feel like replying I click the Reply button, which copies the original email properly quoted into a new window. In the new window I read the message, delete unimportant lines, add comments, read the next chunk, answer the next question, ... And when I run out of things to respond to I'm done. And the reader can see ... to this line he responded with this, to that line with that, this line of code provoked this remark ... Jenda == [EMAIL PROTECTED] == http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz == : What do people think? What, do people think? :-) -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]