<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Billie Walsh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bilwalsh@swbell.net">bilwalsh@swbell.net</a>></span> wrote:<div><div class="h5">[major snippage]<br></div>
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</div></div>Well, if opinions are allowed I'll voice mine.<br>
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Bottom posting is the one of the two stupidist things in e-mail. If I'm<br>
following a thread having to scroll down through all the previous posts<br>
is a royal pain in the posterior. Top posting make immensely more sense.<br>
If I lose my place in a top post I can always scroll down to refresh my<br>
memory. Otherwise, what I need to read is right there when I open the<br>
e-mail.<br>
<br>
The other stupid thing I see all the time is setting a lists defaults to<br>
reply to sender and then requiring replies be sent to the list. If you<br>
want the replies to go to the list, set that as the default.<br>
<br>
Having said all that, I try to follow the list conventions for each<br>
individual list. Sometimes I may do it wrong by mistake because list<br>
conventions vary so much from list to list.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>+1<br>The same thoughts have been in the back of my mind for quite a while.<br>Thanks for speaking up.<br>I do not want to read the entire thread to get to the two lines someone added<br>at the end. Or the 100 lines for that matter. If the topic was interesting,<br>
I've probably been following all along and don't need to re-read it.<br><br>If I'm a late-comer and interested, I'll read stuff backwards as the price<br>of admission, and only have to do it once.<br><br></div>
</div>-- <br>Kevin O'Gorman, PhD<br><br>