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<span style="font-weight: bold;">On Sun 08/09/24 2:01 PM , Steve Litt via talk talk@gtalug.org sent:<br>
</span><blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #F5F5F5 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk said on Sun, 8 Sep 2024 01:55:12 -0400 (EDT)<br>
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<span style="color: red;">>I hate top posting. I recommend only quoting what's relevant to your </span><br>
<span style="color: red;">>message. And quoting in chronological order. Putting the burden on</span><br>
<span style="color: red;">>the reader isn't a good idea in a mailing list (there are more readers</span><br>
<span style="color: red;">>than writers).</span><br>
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Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br>
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Top posting with full quoted text retention is for CYA in business<br>
situations. Mailing lists are a collaborative mind meld like would be<br>
conducted around a table if we were in person. Around a table replies<br>
certainly don't come before earlier statements, and if you had to<br>
rehash every single bit of the conversation just to make an additional<br>
point, progress would be impeded by more than an order of magnitude.<br>
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SteveT<br>
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I find it difficult to not top post at the moment because Primus' service <br>
is messed up and their POP mail is not working. I am accessing it through <br>
webmail. The webmail puts my signature at the top of the screen, with the <br>
quote down below. There is no command that shortens lines. I suspect I <br>
am in rich text (HTML?) mode whether I like it or not. Sending emails in a <br>
professional association, I caught crap for bottom posting. The other people <br>
were just not used to it. This may be part of Microsoft's determination to <br>
change user interfaces in all their applications. <br>
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Another thing I cannot do with Primus webmail is show email chains. <br>
Microsoft Outlook does display that. <br>
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The problem with bottom posting is that a lot of people do not delete <br>
the lines they are not replying to. You scroll down to read the original <br>
message, the first reply, the second reply, the third reply, and so on down <br>
to some literary gem like "fuck you asshole", probably spelled wrong. <br>
There's fifteen minutes of your life you will not be getting back. <br>
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Howard Gibson
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hgibson@eol.ca
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http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson <br>
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