Re: Top posting

[Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com>]

On Thursday 09 June 2005 12:55 pm, David Jardine wrote:
> be getting out of hand :)
> us a lecture on top posting sometime soon?  It seems to
> Isn't some authoritative voice on the list going to give
>

I can understand this bothers you, since many people consider it a point of 
courtesy.  After all, the whole purpose of responding in-line or after 
another post is to make it easier to understand each other and to communicate 
within an accepted set of rules that makes it easier for ALL of us to 
understand each post.

With that being said, and realizing that with a .de domain, you are probably 
using English as a second language, one could ask that you make an effort to 
use proper style, such as writing in complete sentences, capitalizing the 
beginning of your sentences, and completing your sentences.  After all, such 
practices are standard in German as well as English, so it would be 
appropriate to follow such rules in order to make it easier for all of us to 
understand what you are saying.

My point (with all do respect and no insult intended): You may not like top 
posting, but all of us on the 'net, even in technical groups like this, are 
dealing more and more with newcomers to the Internet.  We can try to educate 
them, but things are changing.  Maybe instead of judging others and expecting 
everyone to conform, we should *ALL* keep an open mind, otherwise we might 
find others are being as judgemental of us as we are of others.

Hal