[Asterisk-Users] OT: Posting Styles (WAS: Google newsgroup or Forum setup.)

[Troy Settle]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roderick Montgomery
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 8:24 AM
> 
> According to Troy Settle:
> > 
> > Why do they do that?  Quite possibly because they, like myself, hate
> > having to scroll through pages and pages of quotes to get 
> to the reply,
> > which isn't always clear where it might start.
> 
> Troy, you're not complaining about bottom-posting; you're 
> complaining about
> folks that don't trim their quotes down to context. See how I 
> left out all
> of your previous post except the relevant question above? You 
> only need to
> quote enough of the previous message to gain context for the 
> reply -- only
> lazy folks quote the entire message, reposting the entire 
> thread with every
> new reply. Your replies go below, so reading the message from 
> top to bottom
> is in chronological order.
> 

My posting style changes from thread to thread and even message to
message.  It depends entirely on the material I'm responding to.  If I'm
the first respondant, I'll top-post or go inline.  In this case, we're
discussing a general idea so it doesn't make a huge difference IMO.  In
some cases, there are several individual ideas and/or points that need
responded to, so I break up the original and respond inline with the
quoted material.  In other cases, like this one, the (sub)thread is
going with bottom posting, so I follow suit.

FWIW, if you search for my name, you'll see thousands of posts over the
last decade, and while I could be mistaken, I don't believe I've ever
been flamed for my posting style.  I also believe that this is the first
time that I've ever even responded to a complaint about top/bottom
posting.

The one thing that does drive me crazy, is when people reply to a
thread, and neglect to quote anything of what they're responding to, and
you can never tell who or what their remarks are regarding.

BTW, your line wrap seems to be a little too long, but I wouldn't swear
to it, as Outlook sometimes does funny things when quoting.


Ciao,

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  Troy Settle
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