I totally agree Ken. I personally hate inline replies, especially when a
thread gets long, it's very difficult to see who's replying to whom.

I also agree about choosing how to spend *my* (or your) time. On a busy day
this list generates a couple hundred e-mails, and that can consume a fair
amount of everybody's time.

Often I find myself starting to write a response to something, and I stop
and ask myself if this really adds anything to the discussion, or just
consume bandwidth. More often I just delete it and move on. ;o)

-Denny

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Pergola" <no_spam@LOCALNET.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 1:09 PM
Subject: [OT:] PICLIST message formatting


> Hi Olin,
>
> I guess the trouble is that we all have our own opinions of how this
should
> be done. My personal preference is to see the reply at the very top. I
> personally hate scrolling down a long message to see the response. If I
need
> to see the thread I can always go back in time and peruse the messages
since
> I archive all messages received. A lot of times I scan messages like
reading
> the newspaper. I'm I lazy? Some will say yes, but I'd rather say that I'm
> using *my* time more efficiently. Keeping up with this list can suck a lot
> of time out of one's day. This is not arrogance -- I choose how I would
like
> to spend *my* time.
>
> If the PICLIST administrators mandate a certain way of posting, then sure,
> I'll comply. It really should not be up to one member to decide how things
> are done -- it should be up to the administrators to decide -- if the
> administrators want us to decide, then it should be democratic.
>
> I just realized that you probably won't see this message since I think you
> filter out OT stuff, but this is OT stuff.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ken Pergola
>
>
> >> 3  -  Inserted the reply in-line after the point being replyied to,
> rather
> >> than at the top or bottom.  This makes it easy to see the flow of
> >> original - response - original - response, etc, like in a real
> >> converstation.
>
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