Jeopardy

[prog]

The war against Jeopardy-style posting is lost, and has been for a long time. I've only come around to realizing this lately.

I bet that the only people who don't do it are people who still post to Usenet, a set also expressable as people who know what "Jeopardy-style posting" means.

I don't mind, and I still write my replies "correctly" because it's better that way. But I have to accept that nobody will pick up on my example.

Comments

[temvald.livejournal.com]

though, to be fair, getting a response to a 10-page email with a one-line reply at the very bottom is also pretty annoying.

[prog.livejournal.com]

That's just upside-down top-posting, then.

Part of the etiquette I'm referring to is trimming quoted lines that your reply does not address.

[daerr.livejournal.com]

I think some of the resistance to trimmed quoted replies comes from some GUI mail programs inability to reflow text. This has probably been solved for several years now: I note that Mail.App seems to have solved this. This would be especially hard for something like gmail.