Re: Top-posting (was RE: Sword Is The Soul Of The Samura...

I'm at home, with my AOL system, which formats in a much better way than
Outlook does.

In a message dated 10/21/2005 10:07:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
samurai-listowner@... writes:

> -- In samuraihistory@yahoogroups.com, "Boal, Nina"
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Not only that, but all this top posting has to stop... It drives
> me crazy
> > reading a response then having to go down into the email to figure
> out what
> > they are responding to.
> >
> > Let's stop the top posting, OK? Do what Nate and Tony do, post
> below each
> > section you are responding to. Thanks.
> >
> > -----------------------
> > I'll do the best that I can, though I've noticed that others also
> have this
> > problem. I do snip out the parts of previous postings that aren't
> relevant,
> > which I've noticed some others don't do.
> >
> > I have Outlook, and it's difficult, but if it's really so very,
> very
> > important, then I'll try to remember to cut-and-paste and move the
> original
> > posting to the top and my comments to the bottom.
> >
> > Though I will NOT be able to put my comments below each section
> that I'm
> > responding to. Outlook isn't set up to allow people to do that, so
> I would
> > have to format it by hand. Which might be convenient for you but
> is quite
> > time-consuming and inconvenient to those who have to do this
> > hand-formatting.
> >
> > Nina
> >
>
> It wasn't aimed at you directly, just a general comment - and I'm
> not in attack mode :-D And I use outlook express, and I can't
> imagine it is that much different from Outlook, so I am at a loss as
> to what exactly the problem is. When I hit 'reply' in outlook
> express, the original text is there with all the >>> and then I can
> scroll to wherever I want, click just below the section of text I
> want to respond to, hit enter a few times, and voila, I have space
> to commment. I guess you are saying that in Outlook you can't touch
> the text you are replying to, and have to type at the top? Sounds
> like a poor excuse for an email system (sorry to the Bill Gates fans
> out there) It isn't a HUGE deal or anything so don't lose any sleep
> over it, but it does keep the format standardized and is easier to
> follow.
>
>

Thanks. Not sure what version of Outlook I have at work, but you can't put
the little >>'s in automatically in this version; I would have to do each line
by hand and that is a huge pain which I simply don't have time for. It's set
up for business and the way it is set up, that's standard business practice.

So if you can pardon me, when I'm posting from work, using their version of
Outlook, I'm going to go back to the top-posting. I will always try and edit
out all of the comments I am commenting on, other than the relevant parts, so
there won't be that much to scroll down and read.

However, when I'm home, using AOL, AOL will format it for me, so I can
sprinkle in my responses between the >'s and >>'s that AOL automatically puts in.
However, I am unable to access my AOL account from work.

Cheers, Nina

--- In samuraihistory@yahoogroups.com, nohit@a... wrote:

> >
>
> Thanks. Not sure what version of Outlook I have at work, but you

can't put

> the little >>'s in automatically in this version; I would have to

do each line

> by hand and that is a huge pain which I simply don't have time

for. It's set

> up for business and the way it is set up, that's standard business

practice.

>
> So if you can pardon me, when I'm posting from work, using their

version of

> Outlook, I'm going to go back to the top-posting. I will always

try and edit

> out all of the comments I am commenting on, other than the

relevant parts, so

> there won't be that much to scroll down and read.
>
> However, when I'm home, using AOL, AOL will format it for me, so I

can

> sprinkle in my responses between the >'s and >>'s that AOL

automatically puts in.

> However, I am unable to access my AOL account from work.
>
> Cheers, Nina
>

I know outlook and outlook express are different, so no big deal.
Maybe since it doesn't add in the >>> you could just do something
like this:

original post paragraph blah blah blah

----------------------

nina's response

---------------------

next paragraph of blah blah blah


I dunno, just a thought. I don't even know why I'm worrying about it.

In a message dated 10/22/2005 5:48:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
samurai-listowner@... writes:

[snips]

>
> I know outlook and outlook express are different, so no big deal.
> Maybe since it doesn't add in the >>> you could just do something
> like this:
>
> original post paragraph blah blah blah
>
> ----------------------
>
> nina's response
>
> ---------------------
>
> next paragraph of blah blah blah
>

I thought about that. It still requires a significant amount of
hand-formatting, putting the '--------------'s between each comment, typing each little '-'
in one by one several times while going through the comments. I have
serious doubts that any of the Outlook users really have this sort of time and/or
patience for this sort of custom-formatting.

>
> I dunno, just a thought. I don't even know why I'm worrying about it.
>
>
>

That actually is a very good question -- really, why are you worrying about
it? If users (using ANY email format) can be encouraged to snip out the
comments that are not directly relevant, then I don't see what the huge deal is about
doing a bit of scrolling down to see the relevant comments that a poster is
replying to.

Many people use Outlook, with their reply format on many other lists that I
participate in. Snipping out old comments that aren't relevant does frequently
come up as an issue on these lists. But the "top-posting" thing has never
come up as an issue on any of these lists other than this one.

As for me, I'm now at home and using AOL. So no top-posting here. :)

Nina