Lpc2000

rtstofer wrote:

>--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, clemens fischer <ino-qc@...> wrote:
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>>people, could you please shrub off the quoted material of previous
>>posts? i tend to rush over this high-volume list and tag interesting
>>messages. then i save the lot in one go, but i have a lot of "noise"
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>So, I appreciate a certain amount of context.  On the other hand, I
>prefer to read top posting; I hate scrolling through the context to
>find the answer if I am already familiar with the thread.  Others have
>a different point of view.
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That is not "correct", top-posting is out-of-context replying and 
difficult to figure out what you are specifically responding to.  Normal 
netiquette is to remove parts not pertinent to the context of your 
reply.  For example, someone writes a message with four topics / ideas 
expressed, you wish to comment on just one of them.  Netiquette is to 
remove the text of the other three topics, and generally, most of the 
topic text you are directing your comment to.

Their remaining text is to "jog their memory of what they said", then 
you place your comment below thier quoted text.  Context is good, 
excessive text is purely laziness.

This is not only good ettiquette, but it also clearly shows what you are 
commenting to.  Cluttering a message up with a lot of useless material 
(old text) just makes it harder for someone to figure out what, and 
where, you are commenting.  With proper formatting of relies, you can 
traverse a thread you are unfamiliar with and rapidly become acquanited 
with the topic thread.

This is the way it's been done on the net for the past 12, or so, years 
that I've been here...

Just an informed opinion,

TomW

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