Re: Top Posting

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/05/2011 07:48 AM, Jim Giner wrote: > And besides - I'm sure there are PLENTY of people here who despise scrolling > thru endless repeated paragraphs from a long list of posts just to get the > the latest contribution to the topic. :) > I often do not bother to read posts from those how cannot trim all of the irrelevant portions of a response. I have noticed that the response is usually trivial and not worth scrolling to find. > This newgroup may have its rules, but if bottom-posting was such a wise and > preferred method, why do millions of business users subscribe to a product > such as Outlook, that top-posts by default, to conduct their daily business > via emails flying back and forth with the latest post at the beginning so > that readers don't have to re-hash old news unless they want to? > I suspect one reason top posting is popular is that responders do not have to think about tidying up, just spit out a reply and move on. The result is a message that grows in size with every reply containing every useless bit since the thread began. It becomes quite a mess. - -- James Moe moe dot james at sohnen-moe dot com 520.743.3936 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk4TU/MACgkQzTcr8Prq0ZP2OwCfUj8Hw7cFkkYMey6EdknZ60/E ahgAoJnaxil40kOqps1WhWF6lP6d/Ve5 =pedd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----