From: Paul Howarth <paul(a)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