Bottom vs. Top Posting (WAS: A Plea for sanity when posting to this list.)

[Russell Cook]

Hi Ken,

Ken McLennan wrote:

>G'day there Russell,
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Another, Aussie - we do get into some funny places :-)

>>topics. I hate opening a message scrolling to the bottom of a long
>>message to see a "me too" comment, when I'm scanning the list.
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>	I guess that also comes down to editing. A "me too" comment needs
>nothing but the "Subject:" line, or a quote of 2 lines or so to
>demonstrate what the poster is agreeing with. For such a simple comment
>there's no need to leave the original text in its entirety.
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Years ago yes, but now, I think ther's no need to be as particular. 
Generally speaking storage is cheap as is bandwidth but my time is 
valuable, so it's not the issue it once was. I remember running my 
original BBS on a 1200/300 bps modem and using the one phone line in the 
house, so turning it on when I went out or to work or bed, and leaving 
the phone available at other times. Having to negotiate with my upstream 
nodes, when I would poll for mail as some had the same issue I did . 
Then every byte that wasn't information was unnacceptable overhead <g>.

>>I guess, in the spirit of Ubuntu and tolerance each approach has their
>>place and we should use them where appropriate and drop the religous
>>overzealous  approach. 
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>	No. You should all just agree with ME =).
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:-)

-- 
Kind Regards Russell
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