Sorry? Top posting is bouncing a topic in a forum so as to attempt to cause more intrest / arguments whatever without actualyl contributing or indeed paying attention to the discussion allready done.
I really dont want to see alug become a moderated list. One of the benifits of alug is that its a free forum where issues / comments are always responded to quickly. Moderation will reduce both of these aspects.
Replying below is anoying because it means you have to scroll through a previous email that you have allready read, especially where there (may) be multiple of those. Culling of traffic is always good. Interleaving messages is always good.
Yes you might post some complete crap to the list every now and then, and be embarrased, or indeed flamed about it. But thats all in the good spirit.
J
ps. this isnt really comming from my microsoft windows through hotmail account honest guv.
From: John Seago johnseago@two-ravens.org.uk Reply-To: John Seago johnseago@two-ravens.org.uk To: ALUG main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [ALUG] Blocking Posts to the List Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 16:41:28 +0100
To the best of my recollection some of the lists to which I am subscribed refer posts to moderation where the subject list is, "Re: Contents of main digest...", thus, in the main, catching posts to which one may have replied in haste, by simply hitting the 'reply' button. such a policy would have caught the post by Bob Dove.
Aside to Bob Dove, top-posting is placing you reply above the quoted material, the usual practice is to cut the quoted material and then reply underneath the quoted material, or to interleave them into the quoted material. see: http://www.catb.org/~esr//jargon/html/T/top-post.html http://home.online.no/~shughes/a57998/quote.html which may be of some help. -- John Seago GNU/Linux User #219566 http://counter.li.org AFFS http://www.affs.org.uk/
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