Netiquette request to all

[Kelly F. Hickel]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com]
On
> Behalf Of Jaroslaw Rafa
> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 1:56 AM
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Re: Netiquette request to all
> 
> Agent Smith napisal(a):
> [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > I actually like having the new messages on the top.
> > When I am following a discussion I do not have to
> > scroll through the quoted text to find the new
> > content. I also don't mind having the entire message
> > quoted since I can easily look back on the discussion
> 
> It is like having such a conversation:
> 
> Answer: Because you have to read backwards.
> Question: Why is it inconvenient?
> Answer: Replying at the top of the message.
> Question: What is a problem then?
> Answer: No.
> Question: Is everything OK with mailing lists?
> 
> Does it make sense? For me not. I prefer reading from top to bottom,
not
> from bottom to top. I read an answer at the top and I don't know the
> question! (Actually, on this mailing list, I often get the replies
before
> the messages that are replied to, and in such case having to read the
> message from bottom to top to find out what's going on is really
> annoying.)
> I have to scroll down through the entire message (untrimmed! - and
that's
> even worse than quoting at the top) to find the part somebody is
referring
> to.
> E-mail, and especially a mailing list, is more like a live
conversation,
> where question comes before the answer, rather than a formal business
> letter, where you attach the documents you are referring to at the
end. I
> prefer to read this conversation like I'd be reading a dialogue in the
> book,
> and not the reverse way.
> Read the links I have posted previously - they will give you tons of
> arguments, why classical style of quoting is better.
> 
> In my opinion, nobody would ever think of this "backwards" style of
> quoting
> - because it's illogical - if Microsoft didn't put the cursor at the
top
> of
> the message in Outlook. Maybe they did it just accidentally, they
didn't
> care whether the cursor is at top or at botom, and people took it for
> granted and started all typing there instead of going to the end of
the
> message first...
[Kelly F. Hickel] Sorry, but this mode of posting existed long before
Microsoft Outlook.......

-Kelly

> Regards,
>    Jaroslaw Rafa
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