[Sderby] Hi everyone

[Laurence Barlow]

Kris Douglas wrote:
> On 16/10/2007, Adam Armstrong <lists at memetic.org> wrote:
>>
>> trimtrimtrimtrimtrimtrimtrimtrimtrimtrimtrimtrimtrimtrimtrimtrimtrimtrimtrimtrim!
>>
>> Mailing lists are way too hard to follow if people don't trim their
>> replies! Argh!
> 
> 
> <SNIPORAMA>
> 
> 
> HAHA I agree! That's quality
> 
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Do you not think it would be more productive to explain why not to top 
post and why to trim the replies rather than just passing comments like 
the above?

Personally I'm very new to mailing lists, and as such just treat them 
like normal emails, within my emails I always top post because I'm 
following the conversation and it saves scrolling.

Only today when I spoke to a friend of mine who is also a member of this 
mailing list and many others the reasons why not to top post and to trim 
my replies that I now understand the reasons behind it.

The state of this mailing just keeps going down hill, you can't post an 
opinion without someone getting on there high horse, turning a perfectly 
good thread into a flame war. It happened only a few months ago, within 
the "BBC iplayer petition" thread, at that point I lost most my intreast 
in this group. However with new members I'd like to see this group 
become more active.

I will openly apologise for upsetting people dramatically by top posting 
and not trimming replies, however you could have at least explained why, 
or even posted a "mailing list of idiots" link.

However this probably isn't the best thread to post such things.

Laurence