[thelist] Please trim, please don't top post.

[William Anderson]

Ken Schaefer wrote:
> Thanks for sharing what *you* like. <sarcasm>Let's all change our habits
> because Liam prefers things a certain way.</sarcasm>

Top posting and not trimming replies are behaviourally "wrong" for several 
reasons:

1) http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html
2) http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html
3) http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
4) http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html

Your rationale for preferring top-posting are your own personal reasons, so 
it's rather unfair to berate someone asking for netiquette adherence by 
saying it's they way they "prefer things".  Bottom posting for 
conversational flow is something that's been the de-facto reply standard in 
email and usenet for decades - why mess with something because new 
technologies don't cater for or don't respect standards?

btw, reading thelist over gprs is your choice, I suppose, but reading a 
high-volume list on a mobile device?  You're brave :)

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