[G4] Speeding up

[Jay Snoke]

Yeesh. Too bad we can't get an email program that auto-sorts this out for
our own personal tastes.  I think I've just made mine known, btw.
Jay

> 
> 
> --- Tony Johansen <tjoh7019 at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/10/2005 10:28 AM, "Tim Collier"
>> <collierof1957 at mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I hate when people post at the bottom of the
>> message, it means I
>>> actually have to scroll down to read it
>> 
>> Tim I was at the centre of a long running debate
>> earlier in the year over
>> this issue. I was a top poster, and I was amazed at
>> the passionate and often
>> angry arguments from both sides. What it boiled down
>> to in the end was that
>> there is a tradition handed down from ancient times
>> (read anything more than
>> 5 years ago) that tech mails are bottom posted.
>> There is logic there in that
>> when answering a message with several contributions
>> the story flows
>> naturally down the page and it is easier therefore
>> for busy respondents to
>> skim the problem and contribute.
>> 
>> There is a better reason for bottom posting however,
>> and that is when people
>> give their time freely and often answer dozens of
>> questions daily across
>> several lists, they are justified in simply skipping
>> poorly formatted or
>> impolite messages. The etiquette of tech messages
>> (by long standing
>> convention) is to bottom post, to strip out html,
>> and generally delete the
>> irrelevant.
>> 
>> I am not criticising your wonderfully full and
>> generous response in this
>> thread, just thought you might appreciate knowing
>> why the bottom posting
>> occurs. It's a small enough matter to follow the
>> convention if it makes it
>> easier for someone, so I do myself these days.
>> 
>> All the best,
>> Tony.
>> http://www.tonyjohansen.com
>> A Life In Art 
>> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Never through of it that way before - So I guess I'm
> going to have to move over to the bottom posting camp
> 
> Thanks for the feed back
> 
> rich
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