[Ilugc] [Etiquette] Don't top-post
- From: skarra@xxxxxxxxx (Sriram Karra)
- Date: Sat May 7 21:59:35 2005
On 5/7/05, Sivasankar Chander <siva@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Top-posting is considered rude, fairly universally - whether
you're replying to an e-mail, a USENET post, a mailing
list, or on an online forum/group. It suggests that you haven't
bothered to read the message you're replying to.
Just to re-iterate SRS' point about value of top posting in corporate
environements...
At work, people top post heavily, and not just PHBs. Selective
quoting (and deleting 'unnecssary stuff') works in a forum like ilugc,
where the entire interested popluace is expected to be following the
discussions on list, and the list is archived anyway.'
Where these assumptions are not valid, top-posting is very handy. To
take an example, let's say a team are discussing a bug in their code,
and after a few mails they realise that it is really a problem in
another subsystem, then it is extremly convenient to just forward a
single email to the relevant team, and have that single email have all
the necessary context and prior debugging that has happened for the
problem.
So, yeah, top-posting is extremely handy in many situations. But
ilugc does *not* present any of them. So do not top post in ilugc :-)
-Karra
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