[92298] in North American Network Operators' Group
Watch your replies (was Kremen....)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com)
Wed Sep 13 15:41:04 2006
In-Reply-To: <20060913121759.5e28f33c.darcy@druid.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:43:38 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> 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?
