Interesting format you have, Logan:
<chunk of message 2>
<chunk of message 3>
<chunk of message 1>
<chunk of message 3>
Wow! That is SO less confusing than either top posting, bottom posting or
inline posting. <grin />
>> Now, if you like, you could read everything below and attempt to decipher
how others have properly responded, but most folks are lazy, so they wont.
Perhaps it is not laziness, but conditioning. In all types of posting, we
learn what area of the message we can skip over - a good thing from a time
perspective. But if the author puts small chunks of his message where it
can be overlooked, he is contributing to ineffective communication.
The real solution would be an XML-like format, where the message contained
the entire thread, and the viewer could choose the display mode he desired.
Since this has been discussed often, and the group as a whole cannot come to
agreement, I say "to each his own".
Ken Elliott
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-----Original Message-----
From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Logan Tygart
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 12:17 AM
To: SLUG
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Now: An example of why top posting is bad. Was:
580Unbuntu 5.04 Hoary Discs
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 21:06 -0400, xcalibre@mindspring.com wrote:
> YES
>
> Bill Preece
<amusing myself>
Why top posting leaves everyone at a loss...
No one knows why Bill has responded as such. It could be the answer to a
variety of questions. <insert the questions you want Bill to answer "Yes"
to here>
Now, if you like, you could read everything below and attempt to decipher
how others have properly responded, but most folks are lazy, so they wont.
Just exploiting an example. If you disagree with me, great.
Most likely you, have been assimilated by M$ or AOL [1]. (Bet you wont see
the link to [1] either!)
</amusing myself>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eben King" <eben1@tampabay.rr.com>
> To: <slug@nks.net>
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 3:26 PM
> Subject: RE: [SLUG] 580 Unbuntu 5.04 Hoary Discs
>
>
> > Robert Snyder wrote on Monday, September 26, 2005, at 8:50 AM:
> >
> >> Yes folks these are up for the taking. The ones that were ordered for
> >> Software Freedom Day, that are only 16 days late. I have not
> >> opened the boxes but I knwo what is in there.
> >>
> >> 500 x86 ubuntu packs livecd+install
> >
> > I would like one. Will any be at the Brandon meeting next week?
> >
<snip a plenitude of signatures>
[1]http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/uni
ted_artists/invasion_of_the_body_snatchers/donald_sutherland/invasion2.jpg
The Logan
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