[Xitami] downloading problems with my server.

Jim Noseworthy xitami@lists.xitami.org
Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:19:59 -0400


Hi:

I absolutely agree with Ron.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Ackerman" <ron@miplanet.net>
To: <xitami@lists.xitami.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 11:33 AM
Subject: RE: [Xitami] downloading problems with my server.


> Oh get over it, you are complaining about the stuff the geeks from 20
years
> ago complained about. Come to the present folks. Look I hate having to go
to
> the bottom of the email to read the response. I prefer the reply to be at
> the top, if I want to read the original email I will scroll down to do it
> but most of the time I already know what is in the original email. And all
> those >> drive me crazy. They muddy everything up and makes it hard to
> figure out who has what comment. Netiquette, is that you answer an email
> like you answer a letter. If you are forwarding a letter to someone you
> don't doctor the original up with >>> or anything else. I will give you
the
> removal of the extra stuff on the bottom, but frankly I rarely get that
far
> so it doesn't bother me.
>
> Ron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org
> [mailto:xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org]On Behalf Of Brian {Hamilton
> Kelly}
> Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 8:42 AM
> To: xitami@lists.xitami.org
> Subject: Re: [Xitami] downloading problems with my server.
>
>
> In message <003601c526db$28b7bab0$1200a8c0@Annamaria> "Dario B." writes:
>
> > My answer is after the copy of your message, at the end o the mail... as
> the
> > netiquette says.. ;-)
>
> Which is as it should be; however, neither you nor the other posters to
> the thread bothered to trim off material that was not pertinent to the
> answer.  Top posting is particularly singled out for opprobium precisely
> because it leads to shoddy thinking and failure to trim trailing
> material; it is that lack of trimmin that really upsets people.
>
> (Not helped by Outlook Express's usual mode of quoting; OEquotefix ought
> to be deployed by everyone.)
>
> --
> Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                     bhk@dsl.co.uk
>          "Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu
>          le loisir de la faire plus courte."
>                              Blaise Pascal, /Lettres Provinciales/, 1657
>
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