| gabriel rosenkoetter on 18 Nov 2003 14:59:02 -0500 |
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On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:52:03PM -0500, Ben Dugan wrote: > I agree with Paul that it is good to (1) be thoughtful about reply > formats and (2) not try to coerce others to follow your preferences. 1 contradicts 2 when you're quoting the entirety of a thread that everybody had the opportunity to read the first time, and doing so in a series of replies between two people. That's confusing to people who want to skim back (because the text you're actually replying to isn't usefully near your reply) and irritating to people who read the message the first time (because it's a massive amount of wasted bandwidth). There's no justification beyond laziness for a top-reply. It shows that you didn't care enough to make your message legible, in which case I probably don't care enough to answer your questions. (I made an exception today because I saw what I thought was bad advice being given to an inexperienced user.) -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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