Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:42:54 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Murray Taylor <MTaylor@bytecraft.com.au> Cc: Dak Ghatikachalam <dghatikachalam@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term) Message-ID: <20070118231254.GA5405@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F1267327@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal> References: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F1267327@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal>
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--PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [heavily trimmed, subject line clarified, format breakage recovered] On Thursday, 18 January 2007 at 16:31:41 +1100, Murray Taylor wrote: > On Thursday, 18 January 2007 11:48 AM, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: >> What if someone is emailing from a thread while I am replying at >> the same time, would that not happen ? Would I be getting complains >> again that I am "top-posting" > > Top-posting defined simply ... > > A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? Yes, that's a nice one. > Unfortunately all Micro$lop 'standard' email clients and a few > others put the cursor at the top of the email, so the bad habit has > developed across the world both domestically and in businesses, to > write there, rather than continuing the email thread at the bottom. I think the biggest problem with Microsoft MUAs is not where they position the cursor, but the difficulty they cause in editing the text. My editor also positions the cursor at the very top when I reply to a message. But it also makes it possible to tidy things up. "Top posting" is only one issue. Others of great importance are trimming your posts, not breaking the lines into tiny fragments, and not writing one-line paragraphs. Your .sig is a good example of things that people should remove from replies. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFr/72IubykFB6QiMRAg11AKCSY98agtgLwHStetXbB1O3alzqLgCfQQAC gYRKvKjw3OVxjGDKPTk7Nts= =unp4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9--
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