[Coco] Etiquette Question

[Aaron Wolfe]

Personally, I try to just go with the flow.  If the thread is being
top posted, I top post, if people are doing bottom posting, I bottom
post, and if people are doing inline responses (my "favorite", i
guess) then I do that.

Regardless of what technique is being used, it becomes much worse if
someone breaks the working conventions in any given thread.  On the
other hand, any technique is pretty readable if its used consistently
within the thread.

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Louis Ciotti <lciotti1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> There seems to be two schools of though on this.
>
> Long time users of USENET seem to insist on bottom posting.  Newer
> users like top posting.  I belong to several mailing list, and there
> is always a mixed bag of who does what and what is the correct way to
> post responses.
>
> Personally I do not care, as long as people trim posts so the size
> does not get soo big you cannot find the actual response.  This
> becomes even worse if you use digest mode.  There is nothing worse
> that a short response with 60 lines or quoted text to go alon with it.
>  Then when this will go on for several posts,and you get the daily
> digest, next thing you know I spend most of the time scrolling down
> hunting for the next real post.   Part of the problem I see is that
> new e-mail clients/web interfaces automatically append the prior post
> to the bottom of a response.  I am totally guilty of ignoring the
> quoted information that get appended when I reply to a message.  Back
> when USENET was big I would almost want to say you had to cut and
> paste the information in (dn't wuote me on this as I have never used
> USENET).
>
> My thought is that is everyone takes a few seconds to trim posts, and
> the quoted text so that only the necessay information is there, these
> topics will not be brought up.
>
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Stephen H. Fischer
> <SFischer1 at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> No, you just started another fight over this.
>
> ----- snip ----
>
>>
>> Sorry Gene, I just have to agree to disagree with you on this.
>>
>> SHF
>
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