[Wylug-discuss] List Etiquette: Top Posting vs. Bottom Posting

[David Holden]

On Sunday 28 October 2007, Mark P. Conmy wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, David Holden wrote:
> > Hello Mark,
> >
> > Don't get me wrong, I'm not against this debate, this was just my
> > contribution to it.
> >
> > With regard to snipping, for me email is a method for *busy* people to
> > rapidly communicate. If someone posts with a problem and I have an
> > answer I will fire off the reply often in seconds. If the lists turns
> > into one where I'm continually having to watch my P's and Q's for fear
> > of top/bottom posting reprimand I won't reply.
>
> Which is why I'm seriously considering dropping out of this list as a
> result of the past few posts.
>
> If people are busy, they should appreciate that _others_ are also busy,
> so making their questions/points/whatever as easily accessible should be
> a priority.  Unless they think their time is more valuable and important
> than the poor reader...
>
> > These day more and more people are coming to linux from a non
> > technical background, e.g. Windows users, the last thing I would want
> > is for them to go away telling others how they tried linux but those
> > linux guy's are more interested in "how" you format you emails..
> >
> > Seriously there are more important things..
>
> For someone who gets (probably) >100 significant emails a day, being
> able to deal with them quickly (reply or discard) is important.
>
> If people don't want to take the time to correspond, I'm not going to be
> a fascist about it though, I'll just ignore it.
>
> I _will_ get upset if a debate is opened and I get flamed for raising
> reasonable points that just grate with them.  My life's too short for
> that...
>
> Mark
>
>

So your too busy to read posts that are not formatted how you want and I won't 
reply to list where I'm going to be reprimanded for being too busy to format 
them according to how someone wants them formatting.

By the way its not just an issue of this list in isolation, I've been pull up 
for bottom posting on other lists.. so now my thought process is - so amongst 
the couple of hundred lists I'm on which format do these folks like...

What a productive thread this is turning out to be..

 Cheers,

         Dave.







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