Hate to get in the flamewar, but I was corresponding with a lady on a social site, and she said my bottom-posting drove her crazy! I didn't even think about it, I'd been so well trained... :-) Vaughn Technomage_Hawke wrote: > a majority of the lists I am on (about 100 in all) tend to top post or > trim and respond to each point. granted, a lot of these lists are > blind related, but some also deal with ham radio and various other > topics of interest. I never said it was evil, just extremely frustrating. > > btw, see how my posts are trimmed to get rid of all but the last post? > this has at least 2 advantages: > 1. message length is short > 2. the salient point I am responding to is preserved. > > > On Aug 13, 2010, at 1:06 PM, mike@mjv.com wrote: > >> Not everyone? Let's say MOST. I've been on 70+ listservs for over a >> decade and bottom-posters are extremely rare at best. If everyone >> else is posting a certain way consistently, why suddenly say they're >> wrong and demand posting the opposite way? I mean, what is right and >> wrong with the difference between top and bottom posting as if one is >> evil and the other good? In this case, majority rules. Trying to make >> people do something different on one list than on all the other lists >> is just ridiculous and disingenuous. >> >> Be well, >> Mike in Zone 8, Texas >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss