[Foundation-l] How to reply to a mailing list thread

[Anthony]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> >
> > This post below, I've pretty much ignored
> > because it wasn't worth trying to sort through who said what.
>
> Yet instead of deleting it, you included the whole thing.
>

Correct.  It wasn't worth reading, but it was useful as an example of
something that isn't worth reading.

Yeah, it sucks for people reading their mail with a 2400 bps modem, but I
don't think everyone else should have to suffer through ambiguous messages
for the sake of those few.

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Svip <svippy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am still uncertain whether his comment that it was an example of a
> 'good toppost' was a joke, because I am getting that feeling.
>

No, wasn't a joke.  Sometimes topposting is good.  Specifically, when you
are replying to a message in its entirety, and not any particular part of
it.  This was an example.