Re: List etiquette question

From: jack wallen (jlwallen_at_monkeypantz.net)
Date: 11/18/04

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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 22:01:15 -0500

    as a top poster i'll add just one thing that seems to be lost on this
    list - the vast majority of people reading email today have been trained
    (or ruined) by M$ "rules". whenever i "bottom post" to most people they
    immediately reply back asking why i replied with a "blank" reply. when i
    explain to them that the reply is beneath their email they simply say
    that it doesn't make sense - they know what they said to me.

    so i've just become accustomed to quoting their text below mine. if
    they've no idea what i'm replying to they can just scroll down a bit and
    find out.

    and since the vast majority of people i email are not old-school as
    others i doubt that i'll be changing my quoting preferences anytime
    soon.

    to each his or her own i say.

    On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 19:54, James Wilkinson wrote:
    > Drew, Bill wrote:
    > > The replies are always at the bottom after the quoted part of the
    > > earlier message. This is no the rule on the many other lists I
    > > subscribe to. I am more curious as to why this is the case. This is
    > > not a complaint at all.
    >

    > --
    > E-mail address: james | 'Short for "Sic Transit Gloria Humanorum", which is
    > @westexe.demon.co.uk | Latin for "There goes the neighbourhood!"'
    > | -- Menno Willemse 

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