e-mail list etiquette again [was: Re: [plug] packaged brand-name PCs vs custom]

[James Devenish]

Hi,

In message <BAY14-F9G9PUAfapJMt00066097 at hotmail.com>
on Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:16:56AM +0000, Senectus - wrote:
> > In message <Pine.LNX.4.58.0406100746490.19987 at ob.localnet>
> > on Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 07:54:15AM +0800, Michael Holland wrote:
> > P.S. Senectus, I can forgive the top-posting, but please don't post pages
> > and pages of irrelevant quotes. If nobody made the effort to edit, the
> > replies would get awfully long and signal lost in a pile of noise.
> 
> I 'm not sure what "Top Posts" are..

"Top posting" is when you place the words of your reply before the words
to which you are replying. In comparison, what I've done here is "bottom
posting", where my own writing is placed below the quoted messages. That
is, the bottom posting means that the conversation is printed in normal
chronological order.

> It wasn't pages and pages of irrelevant quotes, unless [you're] looking at a 
> very small screen in which case tough cookies sonny.

(For me it certainly was "pages and pages", but I understand your point
that it might have only been a couple of pages for some people.) But I
think Michael's* point was this:

 - your posting contained 98 lines of text in total.
 - your content only occupied 12 lines of that not including your
   signature, and 21 lines in total including your signature.
 - therefore, almost 80% of your posting was composed of
   irrelevant dead weight.

* Or Mike's or Myk's, I'm not sure.

> I will however apologize for using hotmail for my mail list
> discussions...I intend to change that very soon.

<grin>

> Sometimes I feel that this list can be very "elitist" to a
> pointlessness.

I would make a joke about some of Onno's etiquette postings, but that
would be an "in joke" and would basically prove the above point :-( ;-)

> Drink less coffee and have a nice day ;-)

LOL.