[jQuery] Signal to noise ratio
I personally hate when people snip the entire message. It removes any
context for the reply. For myself, I delete messages almost as soon as I've
read them. So when someone answers a question, or makes a reply to a
previous message and has deleted ALL of the previous content, I have no idea
to which post they're replying. I know this is my issue, but I'll generally
delete all but the last 3 or 4 replies in a message. That way you still have
some context but it gets rid of a lot of the clutter.
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From: discuss-bounces@jquery.com [mailto:discuss-bounces@jquery.com]On
Behalf Of Michael Geary
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 1:10 AM
To: 'jQuery Discussion.'
Subject: Re: [jQuery] Signal to noise ratio
Guys, you may not have noticed that the owner of this list likes to
top-post. Or bottom-post. Or mid-post. Whatever suits his fancy. So it seems
a bit much to complain about top-posting when the list owner doesn't give a
hoot.
The real issue is snipping out irrelevant quoted text, which needs to be
done wherever you place your reply.
> While we're on the etiquette topic... I recommend NOT top posting.
>
> How about visiting;
> http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/gey_stv0.htm
Interesting. That page has one of the most absurdly bad examples of
bottom-posting I've seen:
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Mary wrote:
>Sam wrote:
>>Henry wrote:
>>>Elizabeth