[ale] OT: please trip your posts

[Ron Frazier]

I understand what you're saying.  But, sometimes, the replies are much 
more clear when they're adjacent to the part of the message being 
replied to, ie inline.  On my email client at least, it shows a series 
of vertical bars to the left to indicate when quoting is going on.  I 
just look for the absence of that indicator, and I know where the new 
lines are.  Some email systems use >>> etc.  I really don't like bottom 
posting for replies, but I can see the logic of continuing the trend.  
If people are top posting, the first thing I see when I open up the 
message is the new stuff.  I don't have to scroll down and such.

It seems like we should leave some context in the message, so someone 
jumping into the middle of the thread doesn't have to back for a day or 
two to see what's going on.  I always try to trim off all the old ALE 
automatic sigs and any of my own sigs that got stuck in the middle.

Just my 2 cents.  (Where is the cents symbol on a keyboard?)

Sincerely,

Ron

On 10/24/2011 2:02 PM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> <rant>
> Hey folks, PLEASE trim your posts.
>
> I would really like everyone to bottom post too, but if you can't do
> that, then be consistent.  If you're responding to a thread where
> someone has top posted, continue that approach.  It really makes it
> difficult, if not impossible to follow the thread when you have one guy
> bottom posting and another top posting.
>
> These posts where there are 200 lines and someone posts 2 lines in the
> middle of the post?  Come on.  I'm not going to search for you post.
>
> If you want me to read your response, please trim.
>
> </rant>
>    


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