Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 00:10:20 12/10/02
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On December 10, 2002 at 02:14:40, David Rasmussen wrote: >Good people of CCC! > >Can we just get back to the basics for a minute? >In a forum such as this, the good quoting principles of usenet apply, and for >the same reasons as usual. Top posting is still a bad idea, this is not >Jeopardy. And cut the text you're not directly responding to. All of this is >just basic technique that I would think people had learned a long time ago >already. [snip] And I thought I was the only one who gets tired of scrolling 200 lines, just to see 3 additional lines. :) Even more fun are the cases, when the 3 added lines are somewhere in the middle. :) [and not well separated with newlines for example] Quoting the parts of the message you're responding to is a good thing to do, since that creates context. Quoting _everything_ is not helpful and more of a hinderance. Also, in Usenet you sometimes see the practice, that people quote the whole previous message at the bottom of their new message. The reason for this is, that in Usenet it sometimes happens, that the replies of a message appear earlier at your newsserver than the original message. This can't possibly happen in CCC and therefore is not really needed either. Sargon (who thought that 'Me too!' was too short for a reply and therefore wrote some more words :)
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