list rules [was: Reconfigure after changing Video Card]

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:
[major snippage]


> Well, if opinions are allowed I'll voice mine.
>
> Bottom posting is the one of the two stupidist things in e-mail. If I'm
> following a thread having to scroll down through all the previous posts
> is a royal pain in the posterior. Top posting make immensely more sense.
> If I lose my place in a top post I can always scroll down to refresh my
> memory. Otherwise, what I need to read is right there when I open the
> e-mail.
>
> The other stupid thing I see all the time is setting a lists defaults to
> reply to sender and then requiring replies be sent to the list. If you
> want the replies to go to the list, set that as the default.
>
> Having said all that, I try to follow the list conventions for each
> individual list. Sometimes I may do it wrong by mistake because list
> conventions vary so much from list to list.
>
>
+1
The same thoughts have been in the back of my mind for quite a while.
Thanks for speaking up.
I do not want to read the entire thread to get to the two lines someone
added
at the end.  Or the 100 lines for that matter.  If the topic was
interesting,
I've probably been following all along and don't need to re-read it.

If I'm a late-comer and interested, I'll read stuff backwards as the price
of admission, and only have to do it once.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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