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[Jason Chandler <canthus13@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Brian Freytag <brifreytag@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Middle-posting is useful if there are many inquiries in the e-mail you
> are replying to. For example if somebody asks:
>
> 1. What is your name
> 2. What is your social security number
> 3. What is your bank account number
> 4. What is your mother's maiden name
> 5. What is your address
> 6. What is the name of your puppy
>
> It would be much easier to answer them within the actual quoted text
>

1.  What is your name?

2.  What is your quest?

3.  What is your favorite color?

4.  What is the capital of Assyria?

5.   What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?


as opposed to retyping all of the questions or just answering them
> 1-by-1.
>
> BTW. Everyone is welcome to answer those questions ;)
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Jason Chandler <canthus13@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Bah. I might just start middle-posting backwards in protest.
> >
> > --Jason
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Jonathan Buckley <itsafork@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> seriously guys, i understand what jay is saying & trying to get at (& by
> >> the way, jay, saturday morning when i pick you up, i'm going to smack
> you
> >> for all of this), but if we are all participating in a conversation/
> >> email-thread, then we are, very likely, going to be pretty on top of
> what is
> >> going on. therefore, unless you are wanting the entire world to follow
> the
> >> discussion (i.e. a website/forum), top-posting is by far the most
> efficient.
> >> so i suggest, for email conversations, we simply use top-posting.
> >>
> >> thoughts?!?!
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Rick Ucker <rick.ucker@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: Ubuntu Ohio LoCo Team <ubuntu-us-ohio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-us-ohio] (no subject)
> >> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:12:53 -0400
> >>
> >> I'm with Brian on this one. Scrolling/paging through the entire thread
> to
> >> get to the new message each time is a pain. It makes sense to me to read
> the
> >> reply first, referring to the previous messages below it if I need some
> >> context.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Brian Freytag <brifreytag@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> At work, we get e-mails that are 10-15 e-mails deep. If I had to
> >> scroll to the bottom every time just to see the reply, I'd stab myself
> >> in the face with a soldering iron.
> >>
> >> If you can't remember what happened in your e-mail conversation, I'd
> >> rather have to scroll down to figure that out than to just get the new
> >> stuff.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Jay Sullivan <notfed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Douglas Stanley
> >> > <doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >> Just thought I'd share my thoughts, I really don't like "bottom"
> >> >> posting. I hate scrolling through an
> >> >> email trying to decipher where some one answered my questions... I
> >> >> generally remember what
> >> >> had been said, I just want to see the response right away, front and
> >> >> center.
> >> >>
> >> >> So ban me if you will, but I'm a top poster :)
> >> >>
> >> >> Doug
> >> >> President, Top Posters Anonymous
> >> >>
> >> > I don't really find myself scrolling all that often. Attached is a
> >> > word document with more details.
> >> > --
> >> > Jay Sullivan
> >> >
> >>
> >>
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