[AusNOG] Top-posting.

[Mark Foster]

On 6/03/2015 9:56 p.m., Peter Tonoli wrote:
> Me too.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Mark ZZZ Smith" <markzzzsmith at yahoo.com.au>
>> To: "Ross Wheeler" <ausnog at rossw.net>, ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>> Sent: Friday, 6 March, 2015 7:33:17 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Top-posting.
>> Yes.
>>

*snip*

I'm also very surprised at the lack of a 'stop thread' for this, but how 
bout a middle ground for all the nitpickers?

As you see above i've snipped quoting down to a context-relevant level.
I've also replied to a top-post.  By posting down here at the bottom you 
can see how the mixed-nature of the post makes reading history and 
context much more difficult.

On the mailing lists I administer my policy has always been:
- Reply in the quoting method _used by the previous poster_ (so at least 
you _can_ read back, even if you have to do so backwards)
- Quote only what's necessary to maintain context
- Dont mix top and bottom posting methodologies
- Spend the extra few seconds to be considerate.  If you want to 'reply 
inline' you can eliminate quoted material that's a few tiers old and 
nuke the rest of the bottom-posted noise very easily. 
Ctrl-shift-end,del. This relates to the above 'don't mix' rule.

I'm often amused by AusNOG and its tendency to argue/debate/discuss 
things which all seem like old-hat, the 'done way' of doing things has 
been true and at least moderately well known for nearly 20 years, why 
are we still discussing it?

Thank goodness for mail filtering. But it does explain too why I wind up 
skipping a lot of AusNOG traffic....

Mark.