[s-cars] Replacing a seat heater element.

Kirby Smith kirbyasmith at gwi.net
Sun Jul 10 15:52:34 EDT 2005


With a few hundred S-car messages, and several hundred Corvair list 
messages to go through every week (or every weekend), I cannot afford 
the time to drill down through every message for the new text.  I prefer 
answers be within 4 inches of the top.

kirby


Robert Rossato wrote:
> The majority of listers use top-posting, as that is the default of most
> e-mail browsers.  Personally, I don't care for bottom-posting as I don't
> like having to read/scroll through the same text over and over again
> just to get to the new information.  Bottom-posting is for people that
> can't keep track of what's going on in a thread ;-)
> 
> I want to be able to quickly scan the messages and get the info I want.
> Top-posting best suits that.  And if you forgot what the question was,
> well it is referenced at the bottom.  It's a Jeopardy world out there.
> Embrace it.  I will use bottom-posting only when I'm replying to a whole
> series of questions since in that case it's a little easier to follow,
> though it's more like intermingled posting.  It all depends on the
> format of the original post.  
> 
> Seriously, the S-car list has always been a 'laissez faire' list,
> despite certain recent attempts to change that, so do what you feel
> comfortable with.  There are no strict guidelines.  Most folks on the
> list realize life is too short to worry about USENET protocols and other
> silly useless stuff.  Do whatever makes sense to you.
> 
> Have a Happy 4th of July folks!
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com 
>>[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Eric Phillips
>>Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 8:26 PM
>>To: Kent McLean
>>Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
>>Subject: Re: [s-cars] Replacing a seat heater element.
>>
>>
>>Ahhh, thank you.  Err, is it OK to top-post on a mailing list, or
>>should I follow regular USENET protocol?  This is not to start a flame
>>war over top-posting, I just want to do it as the majority of listers
>>think it proper.
> 
> 


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