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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