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trewornan wrote: > Most of these rules are pretty much common sense but > some do seem a bit anal. Some people really need to > chill out once in a while. > > Plus, I don't see why I should follow a particular set > of "rules" simply because some random individual > More to the point it is group consensus not just one person. > Never entirely agreed with that one - sometimes it > makes more sense (or is just easier). > Also highly annoying IMHO. Ans 2 Comment Ans1 e.g. Because it's hard to read >> Please don't top post > Why not? Absolute nightmare to read and a guarantee I will delete your message unread as being too much of a pain to bother with. Your possibly valid comments will go unread. If you read a book the text goes top to bottom, so why should email go middle to bottom to top? > Doesn't necessarily apply universally but as a general > rule I tend to agree. > As well as Neil's comments HTML takes up more bandwidth. Although you may argue a single message isn't going to cause a problem, it's the old point about 'If we all thought that we'd be buried in it'. Kind regards, Julian -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html