[Coco] Etiquette Question

[Louis Ciotti]

There seems to be two schools of though on this.

Long time users of USENET seem to insist on bottom posting.  Newer
users like top posting.  I belong to several mailing list, and there
is always a mixed bag of who does what and what is the correct way to
post responses.

Personally I do not care, as long as people trim posts so the size
does not get soo big you cannot find the actual response.  This
becomes even worse if you use digest mode.  There is nothing worse
that a short response with 60 lines or quoted text to go alon with it.
 Then when this will go on for several posts,and you get the daily
digest, next thing you know I spend most of the time scrolling down
hunting for the next real post.   Part of the problem I see is that
new e-mail clients/web interfaces automatically append the prior post
to the bottom of a response.  I am totally guilty of ignoring the
quoted information that get appended when I reply to a message.  Back
when USENET was big I would almost want to say you had to cut and
paste the information in (dn't wuote me on this as I have never used
USENET).

My thought is that is everyone takes a few seconds to trim posts, and
the quoted text so that only the necessay information is there, these
topics will not be brought up.

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Stephen H. Fischer
<SFischer1 at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> No, you just started another fight over this.

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>
> Sorry Gene, I just have to agree to disagree with you on this.
>
> SHF