[Foundation-l] [Fwd: About Alexandria] -> to Usenet ?

[Dan Rosenthal]

Most modern mail clients thread email responses either by color coding  
them and indenting in Apple Mail, or using >'s and indenting in other  
windows based clients. Personally, I find reminding people about top- 
posting to be about the same as reminding them about grammar and  
spelling. It generally is an unproductive waste of time, especially  
when the message is easy to understand.  None of the messages in this  
thread have been particularly long, nor confusing.

I never quite understand why people are complaining about the volume  
of traffic on this list. You participated this thread, so you  
obviously know what the general content of it is. Others could quickly  
view from the thread's title what the general  topic of it is, and  
after reading a post or two, whether it is one that they wish to spend  
time reading. Nobody is forcing you to sit and read through every  
thread, and certainly complaining about the list volume is not making  
it any better.

-Dan
On Mar 7, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Mathias Damour wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Dan Rosenthal a écrit :
>>
>> Mathias;
>>
>> I have no idea where your attack comes from, or why it is warranted,
>> but I responded to Florence's message before Michael Bimmler did.  If
>> you are going to criticize someone, please make sure you are accurate
>> when you are doing so, especially when you are discussing "wasting
>> other people's time".
>
> Ok your message was sent just one minute later, so you could have  
> not received the other one then. I still think that there is far too  
> much messages on this list, giving people the choice either to spend  
> a lot of time for it everyday, or to check them quikly which take  
> time even so and make it possible to "miss" messages they would have  
> liked to read, or to just unsubcribe and read no messages of this  
> list anymore.
>
> Maybe I should have wait before sending this message, and if more  
> people would wait as well before posting on this list, they would be  
> less messages and less risk for unnecessary messages, that make the  
> list hardly readable.
>
> See also this :
> http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html
> "If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you  
> summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just  
> enough text of the original to give a context. This will make sure  
> readers understand when they start to read your response."
> "Make things easy for the recipient"
>
> Mathias
>
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