[vorbis] Re: Quoting (OT)

[programmer_ted]

Yes, people can skip over it, but as this is supposed to be a Vorbis mailing
list, threads on how to correctly reply to emails seem a little out of
place, don't you think?  And...

> that said, as long as there isn't a rule on it, top-post all you want,
That basically agrees with what I said on user preference, no?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sune Foldager" <cryo at diku.dk>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] Re: Quoting (OT)

<p>> On Tuesday, jun 3, 2003, at 07:03, programmer_ted wrote:
>
> > I agree completely.  The way someone replies to emails is the way
> > someone
> > replies to emails.  It's user preference.  Let's leave it at that, and
> > end
> > this thread.  It's getting annoying to receive over ten new messages
> > each
> > time I check my mail only to realize they were replies to a useless
> > post.
>
> Surely you can tell by the subject that it's this thread and then skip
> it if it's such a big problem? I don't think everything can be reduced
> to a user preference; this is, as someone also pointed out, a public
> list and when you post on it it's not for yourself but for others to
> read. Some standards should definately be kept, and some rules be
> obeyed.
>
> I am not saying that I can't read and decipher a top-quoted message,
> but I find it rather useless to quote like that, since the subject
> tells you the topic anyway, and with top-quoted replies you have no
> real way of knowing what part of the message you are replying to. But

> and feel free to ignore this thread also :-).
>
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> Sune.
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