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Re: signature at the beginning, not the end



On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:12:59PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote:
> I am not, nor ever have been, a top poster. I would however just like to play 
> Devil's Advocate for a moment and just point out a couple of examples where 
> one might be grateful for it:
> 
> When usenet newsgroups were more popular than they are now (and where 
> newsgroup netiquette has a similar abhorrence of top posting) I would often 
> find that a particular message had somehow not managed to make it through the 
> replication process and onto the server that I was forced to use. Reading a 
> nicely trimmed response to a message when you cannot read the original post 
> was often maddeningly frustrating gobbledygook. In those circumstances I was 
> often grateful for a lazy top poster who had the whole of the original 
> message (and often the whole of the thread too!) beneath their "me too" 
> comment at the top.
> 
> Of course that circumstance doesn't hold true with a mailing list - usually. 
> A week or so ago, when engaged in a fit of quite unnecessary tinkering, I 
> managed to completely mess up my mail server. This resulted in the loss of 
> about an hour's worth of emails. Shortly after I had restored normal service 
> I received an email. I had placed a message in a mailing list. Someone had 
> clearly made a full and detailed reply to my message and this email was yet 
> another person making some neatly trimmed comments to the bits that 
> interested him. I have still not plucked up the courage to admit that I never 
> saw the reply to my post and I have no idea what was said!

There is also the issue of setting the line wrap in your editor to some
_sane_ value (72 is a good value)

-- 
Chris.
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