ADMIN: Reminder -- No Top-posting

[hpfgu_elves]

No: HPFGUIDX 148705

Hey, everyone--

Just a reminder:  top-posting (replying to a message by putting 
your new comments at the top of the message leaving the quoted 
message to follow) is not allowed here.  There are a few reasons 
for this, and they are aimed at making the discussions as easy to 
follow as possible for those reading:

The first reason is because when a person top-posts, they virtually 
never snip the excess / irrelevant parts of the quoted message; we 
have a *lot* of members who read the messages in digest form, and 
it is a headache in the extreme to wade through acres of unsnipped 
posts.

The second reason is that it can often be difficult to follow who 
is saying what (also why we're so strict about attribution), and 
it's far and away much easier to follow a discussion in the format 
of 

> List Member Bill:
> Bill's quoted comments that you're replying to.

List Member Anne:
New message replying to Bill.

So, keep in mind how busy this group is, that there are a lot of 
people who try to keep up and who will read your posts, and *please* 
remember to snip as much as possible, use proper capitalization, 
punctuation, spelling (no netspeak!), attribute quoted comments, 
put your own name/id/whatever you want to be called on your posts, 
and do not top-post.  

Also, to our 'old hand' members who are no longer moderated -- new 
members learn from your posts, so when they see top-posted, 
unsnipped, confusingly or not attributed quotes, etc., they 
understandably believe these things are okay.  So, help us all out 
here and do your best to snip and all the rest, proofread for typos 
and misspellings, and so on.

Thanks, everyone!

--The List Elves