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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Email ettiquette (was RE: windows won't detect my ipod)Re: Email ettiquette (was RE: windows won't detect my ipod)
From: Tyler Wood <tcwood12_at_shaw.ca>
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:06:36 -0600 Have a good day - Tyler Wood --- Tyler Wood skype: the_conman283 msn/windows messinger: the_conman283_at_hotmail.com e-mail: tcwood12_at_shaw.ca best tv guide on the internet: http://www.zap2it.com best internet radio: http://www.bluebeat.com soon to have a live journal! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Woods" <christof_at_infinitus.co.uk> To: "'Rockbox'" <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 11:46 PM Subject: RE: Email ettiquette (was RE: windows won't detect my ipod) > Imho, I don't have trouble following conversations; if I want context, I > just flick back through a couple of the emails with the same topic and > read > up what it's about - usually one message has enough of a contextual clue > so > as to give me an idea of what it's in reference to, and I work from there. > > If I want to be really precise, I would snip out bits from a previous > email > and reply underneath them - but in general someone having a conversation > with someone else listens to what the other person said, and then responds > to it in one go, not in a series of exact, call-and-response type lines - > it's blocks of text with ideas posited, suggestions put forth, etc... It > just seems to me like a much more natural way of holding a conversation. > If > you want to read back through a tree-structure, there's always the online > archives to do that, and one can always just scroll down through the list > of > incoming messages to read back on the subject. > > So, for in-lining, where as you say it's responding with only one thing > needing a reply, would you not agree that it's a waste of both bytes and > time including allllllll that text (abbreviated or not) and THEN putting > the > response, instead of just putting it at the top where it's instantly > viewable, especially if it's only regarding one thing from the previous > email? It's a more conversational style of correspondence, a quicker way > of > viewing responses, etc. > > I do heed the rules though and I do bear in mind that this list is biased > against top-posting. I'm glad that most people on here are at least > willing > to be a little flexible sometimes when the need arises, if I was a blind > person and confronted with pages and pages of old message with the replies > right at the bottom, I'd get very frustrated after a while. > > > The style clash of top- and bottom-posting continues to provide a source > of > great fascination for me... I was never part of the usenet generation; do > you think maybe that that's influencing my style choice somewhat? > Well, to be honest, I've hardly saw any bottom-posting until now. So, I find it a bit strange, to say the least.Received on 2007-03-03 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |