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Date:         Tue, 5 Mar 2013 08:18:39 -0500
Reply-To:     Harry Hoffman <hhoffman@IP-SOLUTIONS.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Harry Hoffman <hhoffman@IP-SOLUTIONS.NET>
Subject:      Re: Trimming replys to posts
In-Reply-To:  <5135EA17.6080406@flatsurface.com>
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Please, let's not have this age-old battle. This isn't something new.

Everyone has their own way. Some top-post, some bottom-post, some do in-line replies.

Different people have different styles of communicating. When we want to interact with others we have to be flexible.

It sucks for people who are in digest mode, but by the very nature of getting the messages in digest mode you aren't looking to have a interactive conversation.

Cheers, Harry

On 03/05/2013 07:50 AM, Mike S wrote: > On 3/4/2013 4:51 PM, D.A.Simmons wrote: >> if when you respond to someone's post you >> delete all in the quoted text except the germane part of the body of >> text being addressed. > > It tends to go hand-in-hand with top posting, which some clueless > Internet newcomer companies (Microsoft/Google), pretty much force on > their users. People hit reply and type an answer without ever seeing the > mass of cruft they're sending, because they're too lazy to scroll.


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