[ic] RE: Top Quoting - What is it?

[interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com (Orko)]

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From: "Kevin Walsh" <kevin@cursor.biz>
To: <interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 5:12 AM
Subject: RE: [ic] RE: Top Quoting - What is it?


> >
> > Dear Mike Heins,
> > RE:>>I have simply started ignoring messages that top-quote.
> > ---------
> > Just so that I don't get on your bad side right off the bat, could you take
> > a moment and define "top-quote".  Is what I am doing here considered
> > "top-quoting"?
> >
> > I have always tried to include enough detail (about preceding messages in a
> > thread) as to allow a reader with little knowledge of the previous
> > conversation to quickly
> > catch up.  Is this not good protocol?
> >
> I may as well answer that for you.
>
> Mike Heins posts an article titled "Interchange-users guidelines
> [semi-monthly posting]" every now and again, which states:
>
> ============================================================
>  -- Contextual quoting is preferred, i.e.
>
> Quoting user1 (<user1@somedomain.redhat.com>):
> > Some limited text that will give context.
> >
>
> Your reply.
>
>     versus
>
> Your reply, lazily put at the top.
>
> Quoting user1 (<user1@somedomain.redhat.com>):
> > The whole big blob of the previous posts, including
> > signatures and all
>
> In fact, the author of the program stops following a thread
> the moment this lazy quoting method is used. He figures that
> if you can't take half a minute of your time to save multiple
> minutes of the readers time, the heck with ya.
> ============================================================
>
> This is what he was referring to.  If people can't get their email
> client to quote articles properly then they either need a new
> email client or a better manual.
>
> Look out for the guideline article when it gets posted again, or
> search the archives.  Following the guidelines is one of the best
> ways to make sure people keep talking to you. :-)

Thanks for pointing this out!  I guess I hadn't read that in the guidelines...
Silly me.  Here I thought that people were referring to "lazy quoting" or "top
quoting" when they were cutting out the rest of the post...  Ok.  Won't do that
again.  I like Mike's comments. ;-)

-- orko

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