From: Paul Howarth paul@city-fan.org Subject: Re: bad posting habits, jeremy bernstein and scientific cranks Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:50:24 +0100
You're right, it's not life or death and people will post however they think appropriate. But the people that persist in top/html-posting after being asked not to do so won't be getting help from the people that object to it, and that does appear to include most of the most knowledgeable people on the list. So by not following the list conventions, you're shooting yourself in the foot. But that's your choice.
Oh!, now, finally, I come to understand as follows. Thanks.
There must be top-posters(T), bottom-posters(B), html-posters(H), plain-text-posters(P), and so on. This is fact and it's a freedom. But after some mail-following-work(quoting, what to say?) among each other, mail text will be as follows in any quoting orders,
T-B-H-P-P-P-T-B..... or
B-T-T-B-T-H ...
.... (any combination)
For sure, those are obviously not human (easily) readable texts. And it might charge heavy trimming work for last posters. That's why minimal rule required. I did not notice. Hmmmm.
// M. Iizuka of Visual Spatial