[Elecraft] Top Posting

W3FPR - Don Wilhelm w3fpr at earthlink.net
Tue Oct 4 00:11:36 EDT 2005


ps030805 (aka noname, nocall),

You should 'standardize' the line length before you try side-posting.  The
following message is very confusing.

The key to top posting is to reply in complete, logical sentences - anything
else produces garbage.  For those who are not willing to construct responses
in complete sentences, I am not willing and able to to decipher
foreshortened comments (I find most of the bottom or in-line comments are
really just  trivial stuff anyway).  I ask how many posts have you seen with
no additional comment?  I know I have seen at least 5 in the last 3 days -
one scrolls down on a comment in an interesting thread and finds nothing has
been added - what a waste of time and bandwidth - think of those who read
this reflector in digest form.

73,
W3FPR

> -----Original Message-----
> Perhaps we could compromise           > A very good point!
> Not only
> and _side_ post, but only on          > removing the
> unneccessary parts
> the _left_side_. It's actually        > of a message you
> reply to is
> quite fun, and you can read the       > important, it is
> also very
> original message with your right      > important NOT to
> reply _atop_
> eye, while simultaneously reading     > the original message
> but _below_
> the reply with your left eye,         > it. It's much easier
> to read the
> provided you have both eyes open!     > message when proper
> quiting was
> 73, Paul                              > used, even if one
> didn't follow
>                                       > the thread closely.
>
>
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