On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 06:29:07PM -0500, Crisler, Jon wrote: > Personally, when dealing with very active lists and following the > thread, top posting is a time saver. Just in case this isn't a troll... A time-savaer for whom? It's worth a few seconds of YOUR time in the interest of not wasting time for everyone else reading the list. > I think this falls into the realm of personal preference, some people > like it, some not.... Rather it's the convention to both trim the original message down AND reply below the quoted text. When everyone follows their personal preference, things get even messier. When everyone follows the convention, threads are much easier to follow and (see above) all the thoustands of people reading the list don't have to waste time hunting through extra quoted material to figure out the context. On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 09:32:38PM -0500, Aaron Gaudio wrote: > As for the disclaimers, my opinion is that they are worthless. I always send people this link. It has a pretty good explanation of why these things are mostly worthless. To be fair many people are forced to include them (or even have them added later by their company's MTA). http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ /w
