RE: [Openvpn-users] Re: top-posting

[Mathias Sundman <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Jonathan Merriweather wrote:

> I totally disagree. Most people will have followed the thread and know what
> was said. If you haven't followed the thread then you can read by looking
> bellow.

Please! Lets not have yet another top-posting vs bottom-posting 
discussion! It has been discussed over and over since the birth of 
electronic messaging, and there just is nothing new to add to the topic!

What I would like to see though is a few lines on the OpenVPN webpage 
outlining what "rules" and etics that should be used on this list.

While we like such a guidance, I atleast follow the general netiquette 
rules which is: bottom-post!

What I find even worse than pure bottom-posting or top-posting, is when 
someone CHANGE the quoting style in an ongoing thread like this :-)

Even if you belive your comment will be the last one, and therefor think 
that I might just as well top-post it, you can't know that for sure, and 
when next person wants to quote you, you just end up with an 
hard-to-follow thread consisting of both top- and bottom-quoted postings.

> Call me lazy but I hate having to scroll past everything that I've already
> read. Especially when it's someone's config!

You shouldn't have to, then someone has quoted to much.

Just my 2 cents...

/Mathias

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openvpn-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:openvpn-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Aaron P.
> Martinez
> Sent: Tuesday, 1 February 2005 7:05 PM
> To: openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Re: top-posting
>
> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 22:26, Nik wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 02:57 pm, Aaron P. Martinez wrote:
> > > First you should stop top posting, a lot of people are very particular
> > > about that.
> >
> > Am I correct in assuming that top-posting is the writing of a reply
> *above*
> > the original text, as opposed to writing it *below*?
> >
> > I've seen references to top-posting before, and wondered if I was
> > inadvertently frustrating folks...
> >
> > (And if I'm wrong, and have inadvertently top-posted, please accept my
> > apologies.)
> >
> > Cheers!
> > Nik
> you got it nik.. top posting is starting a reply at the top of the
> email.  It's bad mainly because people trying to help you need to see
> all of the dialogs that have gone on to be able to give you the best
> direction and your reply at the top won't make sense w/o what's under
> it.
>
> Aaron

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