I am interested as to where there is any such rule.
In the newsgroups I subscribe to I do bottom-post. I might add that these
are read in Outlook Express where the thread is preserved and therefore to
"snip" is the order of the day - without losing the sense of what is being
said.
In a list there is no such preservation of the order of what has been said
within each topic - and therefore to snip what has already been said would,
I think, be seen to be bad manners - after all, generally snipping is done
to make one's own point rather than to answer the points made by the
previous person (in a newsgroup, I am talking about).
According to Wikipedia on Top-posting (if I might be allowed)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting
"When a message is replied to in e-mail, Internet forums, and Usenet the
original can often be included, or "quoted", in a variety of different ways.
The main options are "top-posting" - replying above the original message;
"bottom-posting" - replying below; or "interleaved posting". While each
online community differs on which styles are appropriate or acceptable,
within any community the use of the "wrong" method risks being seen as a
major breach of netiquette, and likely to provoke vehement response from
community regulars."
I joined this community - and as is recommended I observed I imagine what
was the prevailing mode in this list. And I presumably noticed that it was
top-posting.
Indeed I have looked back through a thread and this seems to be the majority
approach - with some clear dissensions from that.
But I would have thought that if it was a true academic community people
would be allowed to do their own thing!
Nick Landau
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Christacopoulos" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: [data-protection] Email quarantine systems
> Tim Trent wrote:
>> No. I have not consented by sending the email, not in the least degree.
>> I
>> send the email to a person in an organisation. There are no rules stated
>> before the processing by the system happens. Technically there can be no
>> notices unless the system rejects each and every "first inbound email"
>> and
>> states that any email is subject to this type of system
>>
>>
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> For your points to be taken seriously you should stop top-posting (the
> same applies to others). Surely - Shirley even if you like airplane
> (the film that is) - your comment is not more important than the one you
> responded to, however much you may think so.
>
> If you can rant so can I. Free country 'n all that.
>
> My most significant contribution to your issue is ...
>
> Geez. The end is near.
> Aye ...
>
> :-)
> Charles
>
>
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