Re: Watch your replies (was Kremen....)

[Frank Coluccio <frank () dticonsulting com>]

Perhaps the list should be turned into a wiki; and no, while I'd like to, I'm not
at this time volunteering to admin ;)

Frank A. Coluccio
DTI Consulting Inc.
212-587-8150 Office
347-526-6788 Mobile

On Wed Sep 13 15:43 , Michael.Dillon () btradianz com sent:

> > It's insulting
> > when you trim the message to a shorter statement that you are
> > responding to.  The other 18 lines may not have been important to this
> > particular response but they were not content free.
>
> If your content was in any way, interesting, then people
> will have read it in the message that you posted. I see
> no need to repeat a bunch of irrelevant text when I am
> only replying to one point in your email.
>
> Personally, I wish more people would trim away all the
> irrelevant junk when replying.
>
> On the other hand, in the corporate world I find that
> the habit of top posting is very useful to me. I often
> see things that were never intended to be sent to me
> and I often discover that the previous replies in a thread
> betray the fact that the writer did not read or did not
> understand the original message. 
>
> But on a mailing list, trimmed replies are superior.
>
> --Michael Dillon
>
> P.S. are the standards of this list so unclear that
> Darcy and I have to discuss this? Who is right?