Re: [cobalt-users] Re: Posting Style/Netiquette (Was: RE: [cobalt-users]frontpage not asking for password)

["Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>]

This thread has been named many things!
But, you do have a valid point! I also
believe that if a person has been
following a thread, then they want to
read the next response at the top of the
thread, not scroll down through all the
comments that they have already read.
Those who have not been following the
thread can read the latest comment
first, and if they are interested, may
move to the bottom and work their way
up! There should be an accepted
protocol  though. Maybe we should vote
on it.
So that makes 4 cents ;-).

----- Original Message -----
From: Liz <daldog@xxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 1:21 AM
Subject: [cobalt-users] Re: Posting
Style/Netiquette (Was: RE:
[cobalt-users]frontpage not asking for
password)


> On Wednesday - 03/15/2000 (11:54 AM) -
Jeff Lasman wrote...
> >Do you really need me to treat this
list as "special" too <smile>?
>
> If I may point out something here...
We're all using different email
> clients, which do different things for
"quoted" text...so that's a
> gimmie.  Replying at the top is easier
for me to read a response to the
> original since everything follows in
exact order as the questions are asked
> and then a response and comments to
the questions follow.
>
> Another reason.....Eudora puts in
these funky bars on the left side for
> quoted text and it gets seriously
crazy trying to read in between the
lines
> as to who said what and when, after
there are muliple replies back and
> forth in a thread.  When multiple
goings on occur, back and forth,  with
> responses, now I'm busying myself
counting bars in order to figure out
> questions and comments from answers.
Going cross-eyed would about sum it up.
>
> I can't use the ">" for quoted
responses since that's no longer an
option
> available in Eudora 4.xx, and Qualcomm
has pretty much flat out refused to
> offer a choice of either the funky bar
or the ">".  Outlook Express is
> throwing up bars, too, in some of
people's responses, as far as how
they're
> showing up in my email client.
>
> Changing email clients as to satisfy
this list isn't an option for me, as
> I'm sure it isn't for others on this
list, so people shouldn't get all bent
> out of shape if others choose to post
in a style their comfortable with
> seeing, or using to read.  If you
think about it...telling someone where
to
> post their responses is getting a
little fussy.  :-)  The whole point of
> the list, I thought,  is so people can
understand who is writting
> what...correct?  I really don't agree
that people should be forced to
> conform to a specific style of
replying since we're all having a hard
> enough time trying to conform to
Cobalt's stuff.
>
> Although I do agree that cropping some
of the bulk from the original post
> makes sense,  considering long threads
occur, and then add those those
> blasted "bar" things again.
>
> Anyways...just my two cents.
> Liz
>
>
>
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