Re: [tdf-discuss] Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

Yeah! A man without unnecessary limitations.
I believe cropping is a solution to the problem.
I understand, but dislike being forced to read
the whole thread. There is an argument for
reading the "whole thing" but I believe that
it does not need to be dogma.

regards,
Richard.

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <andrew@pitonyak.org
> wrote:

> The links do not lead me to assume that top posting is expected. If the
> documentation group desires bottom posting only, the user should be informed
> when the register. Even then, I expect that most people will miss it.
> Expecting someone to follow a link and then follow another link seems a wee
> bit unlikely.
>
> Bottom posting is great when a message is not read in context of the other
> messages. When I read threaded messages, it is annoying to wade through the
> message history before I arrive at the content of interest. I might prefer,
> therefore, that people be prodded into seriously shortening content from all
> previous posters to only contain the portions relevant to their reply.
>
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