[ubuntu-art] Again, top-posting. (*sigh*)

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On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Dean Landolt <dean at deanlandolt.com> wrote:

>
> Well, top posting is quite annoying when you're trying to view the thread
>> linearly. Imagine if on a forum someone kept finding a way of posting before
>> the original author way back on page one.
>>
>> Anyway, in Gmail it's pretty easy to avoid. When you do a replay just page
>> down to after the person to whom your replying and type your message there.
>> It's a simple thing to do and it makes everything really easy to read for
>> everyone. Maybe those who find it most annoying should just put something in
>> their signature about it?
>>
>> It's rude to do it, but if someone doesn't know about it they shouldn't be
>> made to feel like they are an idiot and shouldn't be posting to the list.
>>
>
> Agreed. But of the dozens of active mailing lists I'm subscribed to, this
> is the only one with such continued public shamings on it. I remember when I
> first starting posting to the python forums I got a few friendly private
> messages about top posting and haven't done it (consiously) since. Of course
> sigs could also be a good solution.
>
>
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I think the most important part is just to give someone a
fair warning about it. I'm new to mailing lists, and someone kindly
explained top-posting to me, and now I try not to do it. If
people do it repetitively, then I can see how it would be
aggravating, but otherwise, try a friendly message to clue
the offender in.


-- 
- Mike
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