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-- Dustin Puryear President and Sr. Consultant Puryear Information Technology, LLC 225-706-8414 x112 http://www.puryear-it.com Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ Shannon Roddy wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:23 AM, David B. John > <djohn@archdiocese-no.org <mailto:djohn@archdiocese-no.org>> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 10:23 -0500, Dustin Puryear wrote: >> The whole top-posting vs. bottom-posting deal is a relic... >> > Just do both. > > > <rant> > > For me, it boils down to readability of an email thread. If there is no > chance of an email thread turning into a long bit of text, I really > could care less. However, when a thread turns into 20+ paragraphs with > a half dozen people inserting replies top, bottom, and inline it makes > my blood boil. You ever try to read an email that is multiple "pages" > long with a mixture of top, bottom, and inline posting? > > There is a reason bottom/inline posting was standard long ago. It helps > in readability of threads, and follows the left-to-right, top-to-bottom > flow of natural English language text/dialog. > > I'm going to start right-justifying and typing all of my responses to > Dustin backwards so that he has to read them right to left. > > </rant> ___________________ Nolug mailing list nolug@nolug.orgReceived on 06/26/08
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