Re: [libreoffice-users] Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

What the heck was that???

(top-posted because there is no way to make sense of the quoted text)

On 2011-09-07 9:53 PM, Keith Bates <keith@new-life.org.au> wrote:
> On 08/09/11 11:29, Don Myers wrote:Reply
>       below:On 09/07/2011 08:02 PM, NoOp wrote:For those that continue to insist on top
>         posting on the LO lists: pleaseconsider bottom posting with interspersed replies.Hi All,I 
> will respect your wishes about posting at the bottom. I live in
>       the US. I do a lot of work e-mails in my job, and receive a lot of
>       work e-mails. I never receive any e-mails where people reply to me
>       at the bottom. The reply is always at the top. I never understood
>       why Thunderbird had the default to reply at the bottom when
>       Thunderbird came out. It was backwards!!!!!! So I have always
>       changed the default on every system I've installed it on. Maybe
>       there are different customs in different countries.DonIt's not a point about national 
> customs. It's about the way we read
>     mailing lists.If you are in a one-to-one conversation then you will know the
>     context of the conversation and more importantly you will remember
>     what you said to that person last time.In that case top posting
>     works often,although you may still have to re-quote parts of the
>     previous conversation to make it clear what is being talked about or
>     the points you are responding to.In a mailing list where there are multiple conversations 
> frommultiple people all happening simultaneously, it is a lot easier for
>     all concerned if replies are interspersed in the body of the
>     previous email or at the bottom so that new readers can pick up the
>     context of the conversation. Also for people who come across the
>     archived version looking to solve a problem several months later, it
>     is much easier if you can follow the logical flow by scrolling down
>     through the various discussions.We've had this discussion multiple times on this and 
> previously on
>     the OO list.I'm with NoOp on this but I know that there are people who insist on
>     their right to top post.-- 
> God bless you
>
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> Keith Bates
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