Top Posting and Message Trimming

Evan Koblentz wrote: OTOH, it's pointless in this environment and contributes to a significant fraction of a message sent, so is just a total waste of space. I would have thought it's obvious though that people object to the companies that see the need to do this, not to the individual who posts to the list :-) I suppose the mailing list software could strip *all* signatures from anything posted in order to save bandwidth, but that's hardly fair on those who have legitimate, *useful* information in their sigs :-( For the large part, yes. It seems nice periodically to gauge opinion on such things though and consider changing/enforcing policy if needs be. Personally I've got nothing against such discussions on here providing they don't happen every couple of weeks :-) Bingo - hence the top-posting discussion. The list is nicer (or at least easier to follow and use) when there's a consistent style rather than people doing their own thing. I'm giving the impression that I care here way more than I do, I know :-) I'm not going to lose any sleep if a tiny percentage of the list do things differently to the rest, and I doubt any other list inhabitants are either. cheers Jules