List etiquette question

[Nathaniel Hall]

I would say that most people don't read every e-mail that goes through a 
list.  It would me sense then that if a user is actually interested in a 
post, they will already know what the topic or origional question is 
because they most likely read the first message of the thread.  I find 
it annoying to have to scroll to the bottom of a post that has five 
responses to it when there is only a line to read.

I agree with Jack when it comes to my location of reply.  If they have 
started in the middle of the set of e-mails, they can scroll down to 
catch up.

Nathaniel Hall, GSEC
Intrusion Detection and Firewall Technician
Ozarks Technical Community College -- Office of Computer Networking

halln at otc.edu
417-447-7535



jack wallen wrote:

>as a top poster i'll add just one thing that seems to be lost on this
>list - the vast majority of people reading email today have been trained
>(or ruined) by M$ "rules". whenever i "bottom post" to most people they
>immediately reply back asking why i replied with a "blank" reply. when i
>explain to them that the reply is beneath their email they simply say
>that it doesn't make sense - they know what they said to me.
>
>so i've just become accustomed to quoting their text below mine. if
>they've no idea what i'm replying to they can just scroll down a bit and
>find out.
>
>and since the vast majority of people i email are not old-school as
>others i doubt that i'll be changing my quoting preferences anytime
>soon.
>
>to each his or her own i say.
>
>On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 19:54, James Wilkinson wrote:
>  
>
>>Drew, Bill wrote:
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>>
>>>The replies are always at the bottom after the quoted part of the
>>>earlier message.  This is no the rule on the many other lists I
>>>subscribe to.  I am more curious as to why this is the case.  This is
>>>not a complaint at all.
>>>      
>>>
>
>  
>
>>-- 
>>E-mail address: james | 'Short for "Sic Transit Gloria Humanorum", which is
>>@westexe.demon.co.uk  | Latin for "There goes the neighbourhood!"'
>>                      |     -- Menno Willemse
>>    
>>
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