[ale] OT: please trip your posts

[Scott Castaline]

On 10/24/2011 02:18 PM, Ron Frazier wrote:
> 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>
>>
>
I'm guilty as charged, but this varies from list to list. There's one 
list I'm on mostly passively, where the feeling is that bottom posting 
is old school and old schoolers need to get with it or just die off. The 
same list, some of the participants will really dig into you for 
trimming, they want the op along with addons, which of course must be 
top posted.