From: Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: bad posting habits, jeremy bernstein and scientific cranks
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:50:24 +0100
> You're right, it's not life or death and people will post however they
> think appropriate. But the people that persist in top/html-posting after
> being asked not to do so won't be getting help from the people that
> object to it, and that does appear to include most of the most
> knowledgeable people on the list. So by not following the list
> conventions, you're shooting yourself in the foot. But that's your choice.
Oh!, now, finally, I come to understand as follows. Thanks.
There must be top-posters(T), bottom-posters(B), html-posters(H),
plain-text-posters(P), and so on. This is fact and it's a freedom. But
after some mail-following-work(quoting, what to say?) among each
other, mail text will be as follows in any quoting orders,
T-B-H-P-P-P-T-B..... or
B-T-T-B-T-H ...
.... (any combination)
For sure, those are obviously not human (easily) readable texts. And
it might charge heavy trimming work for last posters. That's why minimal
rule required. I did not notice. Hmmmm.
// M. Iizuka of Visual Spatial
