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["J. Hudson" <webcoded@xxxxxxxxx>]

Somebody, please, remove me from this annoying mailing list!  Your link 
to remove doesn't work!

On 4/15/2010 4:50 PM, Brian Freytag 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
> 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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