Threadtiquette

DAVID STOCKHOFF · 06 Jan 2011, 20:31 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (DAVID STOCKHOFF)
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 12:31:19 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Threadtiquette
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinTY6absVWEVTB4ej8CRwVvQ_a8OL-E6XCtqUsN at mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <476532.56723.qm at web84102.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

If only interleaving were so easy. I try to do it but Webmail makes it difficult and Thunderbird isn't much better. I sometimes resort to dashes, and I hope that is effective.
Of course, I top-post because I am using email, and top-posting is best for email, where I don't need to read my own question before I read the response.?It's also plainly the best format for this forum, because no one needs to read a poster's original question 6 times while reading the 6 answers posted in response.?
Naturally many people disagree---this is after all the Internet.

--- On Thu, 1/6/11, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Threadtiquette
To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
Date: Thursday, January 6, 2011, 2:20 PM

2011/1/6 Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>:

> I think interleaved replying - which is incompatible with topposting - helps
> keep focus and avoiding repetition. It also kind of ensures that you read
> what you're replying to.

Indeed, interleaved replying is _the_ defining motif of email/Usenet
communications. It has the unique feature that you can interrupt
someone without being rude. Some years ago I coined a word for this
style of semi-collaborative writing: Coinscription.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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