Re: Templates - Top posting and etiquette.

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From: Ivan Brugiolo [MSFT] (ivanbrug_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:58:10 -0800

With regard of top-posting:

There might be other policy-compliancy and legal requirements that apply
when you speak under the name of your employee in an identifyable manner.
This is unfortunately a problem orthogonal to etiquette. 

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"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net> wrote in message
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> This is top-posting.
>
> Mike Gleason Jr Couturier wrote:
> > I would like to conform to general accepted rules
> > of this ng. Can you explain to me exactly what top-posting
> > is ? I'm not kidding !
>
> This is normal posting (also known as "inline").
>
> This has unfortunately nothing to do with "generally accepted rules".
>
> Generally, since Microsoft Outlook Express, used by the vast majority
> of the readers of this newsgroup (as I suspect), has no setting to begin
> replying _after_ the quoted text (just like many other MS products, it is
> half-baked), many always top-post without thinking twice about how
> unpleasant that may make reading their posts later.  Since many do it,
> they have to tolerate it, so they learned to read the posts backwards,
> instead of the normal top-down order accepted in English language.
> Luckily they don't type the sentences from right to left.
>
> > Is my answer to Mr Bazarov should have been under
> > my original post ?
>
> I would settle for "under Mr Bazarov's reply", but...
>
> Don't hold your breath.  In an unmoderated newsgroup "should" is a very
> dangerous word to use.  Some say it should have been, others will argue
> that everybody is free to do as they wish.  I do not try to set any
> rules here, I just politely ask to please not to top-post.  If you won't,
> I am not going to raise hell or complain to your ISP, trust me.  I may
> think twice about participating in threads with dominant top-posting
> later, but that's not a concern of anybody's, AFAICT.
>
> The point of my asking is to try to keep Usenet a pleasant place to visit,
> where everybody makes an effort to be polite, and not necessarily at this
> particular moment, but also later to those who return to our posts and
> read them in the archives.

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