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Re: I hate MOCPages
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 2 Sep 2004 18:06:52 GMT
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On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 05:56:54PM +0000, Alfred Speredelozzi wrote:
> <unrelated rant>
> P.S. Lugnet tells me this when I go to post:
> "You added your reply at the top of the message. Proper netiquette suggests that
> you add your reply at the bottom of the message so that people can read the text
> in natural order from top to bottom."
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> I actually don't agree with this at all. I hate reading meaasages where you
> have to scroll throught the trail to get to the new content. I don't actually
> think this is a consistent netiquette either, as I see many interent posters
> using the opposite convention: new material at the top of the post.
See - there's your problem. Replying on the bottom makes a lot of
sense, as long as you TRIM THE QOUTED TEXT. Not you in particular
Alfred, but everyone. If people just hit <end> and type their text,
there's no point.
For instance, did you really need to quote the complete message you
replied to? For context, you could have left the paragraph with the
actual suggestion, but the rest could have been trimmed away.
Does that make sense?
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: I hate MOCPages
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| On 14:06 09/02/04, Dan Boger wrote (...) Blame MicroSoft (again :-)... stoopid Outlook has trained people to reply at the top of messages. It makes it hard to figure out what they are talking about. If you try to interleave your comments it does (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: I hate MOCPages
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| (...) In lugnet.general, Stephen F. Roberts wrote: (...) I don't think it's only that. In my workplace, the general practice is to always include the whole text of the message to which you are responding, but to put the new content at the top. The (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | Re: I hate MOCPages
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| (...) I totally missed Alfred's rant because he replied at the top. When new text is at the top of a message, I automatically assume there is nothing new further down because very few messages do. If the first line of a message begins a quote (such (...) (20 years ago, 3-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: I hate MOCPages
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| I agree with your suggestions. In fact, I think it helps cut down the trash on Lugnet becuase you have to be registered to post, AND Lugnet always shows your real name. Yea, we still get trash (and different people will judge what is trash (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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