Please could you all Delete part of those LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOG letters

Hi Nickie,

*shrug* I guess it depends on the newsgroup or email list, the rules they
set up, how strictly or not those rules are supported, and the group of
people reading and posting to that group.

I don't think I've brought this issue up on this ng previously, but Mirjam's
request triggered the realization that I had been deleting many posts
without reading them simply because of posting responses at the bottom of
extensive quoted text.

Cheers

David

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On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, nickie{D} wrote:

Hi David,

I was intrigued by this and asked friends on another newsgroup. The best
reason they came up with for the convention of bottom-posting was the
unreliability of usenet in terms of message propogation. It is common to
receive messages out of order, for instance, and then if the message is
top-posted and the message to which it is replying is not there the person
reading it has no context and it becomes meaningless.

There is no corresponding argument where mailing lists are concerned I guess
as they are more consistent (perhaps with the exception of yahoo which can be
a bit sporadic) and good at delivering messages in the correct order.

nickie


David R. Sky wrote:
Funny how many posts this thread generated!!

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