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

[keimel.livejournal.com]

Like others who commented, I think it has a lot to do with software default behavior. I mean, if all those apps drop your cursor in above all the quoted text, very few people are going to take the time to reply properly.

What's really bad is reading a digest where some people trim, some do not, some jeopardy reply, some do not. It really makes life on the reader hell.

I too share your frustration with this not so subtle change in the flow of communication.

Now, about the war on HTML email... I think small victories can be won. I just had someone change his email config when I told him that his 6 line reply was over 300 lines long due to html.

But I digress...