> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jaroslaw Rafa > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 1:56 AM > To: vnc-list@realvnc.com > Subject: Re: Netiquette request to all > > Agent Smith napisal(a): > [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > I actually like having the new messages on the top. > > When I am following a discussion I do not have to > > scroll through the quoted text to find the new > > content. I also don't mind having the entire message > > quoted since I can easily look back on the discussion > > It is like having such a conversation: > > Answer: Because you have to read backwards. > Question: Why is it inconvenient? > Answer: Replying at the top of the message. > Question: What is a problem then? > Answer: No. > Question: Is everything OK with mailing lists? > > Does it make sense? For me not. I prefer reading from top to bottom, not > from bottom to top. I read an answer at the top and I don't know the > question! (Actually, on this mailing list, I often get the replies before > the messages that are replied to, and in such case having to read the > message from bottom to top to find out what's going on is really > annoying.) > I have to scroll down through the entire message (untrimmed! - and that's > even worse than quoting at the top) to find the part somebody is referring > to. > E-mail, and especially a mailing list, is more like a live conversation, > where question comes before the answer, rather than a formal business > letter, where you attach the documents you are referring to at the end. I > prefer to read this conversation like I'd be reading a dialogue in the > book, > and not the reverse way. > Read the links I have posted previously - they will give you tons of > arguments, why classical style of quoting is better. > > In my opinion, nobody would ever think of this "backwards" style of > quoting > - because it's illogical - if Microsoft didn't put the cursor at the top > of > the message in Outlook. Maybe they did it just accidentally, they didn't > care whether the cursor is at top or at botom, and people took it for > granted and started all typing there instead of going to the end of the > message first... [Kelly F. Hickel] Sorry, but this mode of posting existed long before Microsoft Outlook.......
-Kelly > Regards, > Jaroslaw Rafa > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > Spam, wirusy, spyware... masz do6f? Jest alternatywa! > http://www.firefox.pl/ --- http://www.thunderbird.pl/ > Szybciej. #atwiej. Bezpieczniej. Internet tak jak lubisz. > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > VNC-List@realvnc.com > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
