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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: recordings to the wrong placeRe: recordings to the wrong place
From: leonard morris <lmorris1953_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 08:37:50 +0800 You said "Did I top post? I didn't think I quoted anything..." I was only asking for myself. I wasn't refering to anybody else. On 5/12/2015 8:46 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote: > On 05/12/2015 07:14 AM, Kyle wrote: >> According to leonard morris: >> # BTW, I have been on this list for years but I don't know if top >> posting >> # is still forbidden since I have not posted in a long time. >> >> Did I top post? I didn't think I quoted anything, as I restated the >> question in the answer so that I could minimize quoting. I'm one of >> those people who feels that quoting is largely unnecessary. For example, >> It makes no sense to me to read >> >> It gets even worse when people post at the bottom of other people who >> have posted at the bottom of other people. Once it gets past 1 or two, >> it can be pure murder to try to read through, especially when I've >> already read the original post as many as 6 times by the time I get to >> the last message in the thread. Instead, I prefer to write the answer to >> >> I don't top post, and I don't bottom post. On those very rare occasions >> when I do quote, I quote as little as possible, shorten the attribution >> line so that it doesn't take a million years to speak it all, (Yes, I >> use speech here), and put my answer inline. You will never see me top >> post, and you will rarely if ever see me bottom post, as I have far >> better ways to quote if I feel I must. That said, on lists where people >> feel they have to pick at the way someone who is trying to help someone >> posts the answer to a question, especially if they aren't either the >> person asking the question or trying to help answer it, I rarely post at >> all, and I generally make my own feelings known at such times. In fact, >> you are more likely to see me complaining to the picky people for top >> posting, because I do use speech, and trying to get through all that >> stuff that I've already read 3, 4 or even more times just to try to find >> the response when using speech is like trying to find the needle at the >> bottom of a haystack. In fact, I prefer to read messages in threaded >> form, as a conversation. Real conversations go like >> When was the last time you had a conversation where the person you were >> speaking with repeated every word you said before giving their response? >> Believe me, that is very annoying, especially if you're repeating back >> in the same way. This is how I feel about e-mail, which is now threaded >> so that it is very easy to reread anything I may have missed without >> having to have someone repeat the same thing over and over ad nauseum. >> Sent from my exercise ball > > I agree hard and fast rules on whether to top post or bottom post are > silly. The key is that the reader understands what you're saying as > easily as possible. That being said, I respect the wishes of the list > I'm on. > > Threaded email is great, but I like to process my messages as I go, > deleting and filing them as I read them. If someone picks up a thread > a day or two after I've read anything else in that thread then I may > not recall everything that's been said before, so I appreciate the > quoted thread at the bottom of the message. I've tossed quite a few > good is referring to.answers to questions lately because I don't know > what the information was referring to. I'm also sure there were > questions I could have answered, but the lack of context made it > impossible. > > Bottom quoting may not make sense in a non-technical list, but it does > help when having a technical discussion where referring to source code > or a particular statement is important. Again, top posting or bottom > posting or in line responses depends on the nature of the list and the > messages. > > IMHO, proof reading your responses and thinking about how others will > read it goes way beyond hard and fast rules over top posting or bottom > posting. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rockbox FAQ: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GeneralFAQ Etiquette: http://www.rockbox.org/mail/etiquette.html Received on 2015-05-13 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |