Re: Tips on Posting questions to the SPSS list.

Posted by David Marso on
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Tips-on-Posting-questions-to-the-SPSS-list-tp5715038p5715042.html

I invariably top post but include the previous post and re-quote the relevant points I am addressing.
Reading bottom posts requires reading through the everything previous and sometimes impossible to find the current post (especially when it is at the bottom of a deep thread where everyone has re-quoted everything without snipping anything  ).  Try reading SEMNET digest these days ;-)))
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Bruce Weaver wrote

Re top- vs bottom-posting, I (almost) always bottom-post in usenet newsgroups (e.g., the sci.stat.* groups), where that has long been the convention in usenet.  I top-post on this list, because that *seems* to be the convention here.  (I would guess that's because most folks read via e-mail programs that top-post by default.)  

Bruce

Albert-Jan Roskam wrote

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These are the R guidelines: http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html. But having mentioned these, R is good example of a list where "bashing" is quite common *). Guidelines are a means, not a goal in themselves. It's useful to have a conscise problem description, with a self-contained example. But esp. for novice users this is easier said than done. I agree with the technical guidelines to avoid html messages and also, to avoid top posting. Bottom posting makes the archive a lot easier to read.

Albert-Jan

*) This is not to say that many, if not the majority of the people on that list are helpful.

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