Callum M0MCX wrote: > I'm sometimes finding it difficult for me > to navigate through the comments of a thread; due to the apparent commenting > at the bottom of the previous message - and including the text beforehand.
Surely comments belong within the text next to the point they relate to. Your original post touches on 4 or 5 slightly different subject in each of its paragraphs. How are we supposed to know which of these subjects is being replied to if the whole reply is top posted? > This leaves large amounts of original text, line after line, for me to > scroll through to read the one-line comment at the *end*. Agreed this is bad practice. > I can only assume that these commenters are using a different reader / > system to me. Please be aware that this means that I sometimes can't even > find the comment because it's buried somewhere near the bottom of my email. > Anyway, I find it tedious. I've not checked but will guess that the majority on this list don't use Outlook as their mail client (as you do according to your message header.) It has a proprietary method of handling commented text which isn't even fully compatible with Microsoft's other mail client Outlook Express (though that has its own text quoting issues...) For what it's worth I find mail clients that by default send every part of the message to be sent twice (with the second HTML copy having wholly unnecessary colours, fonts or embedded graphics, as Outlook does) tedious to download, especially when I'm onboard with on a GPRS connection. > 2) There seems to be quite a lot of one-line esoteric replies and friendly > "digs". These alienate me. If I knew some of you, perhaps I could keep up. > It's like being in a different pub in a different town, every night. I might > as well drink at home. I'm sure for the small band of people who do know > each other and have been chatting here for years, this must be great fun. Yes I'd agree with your first sentence but I'd suggest that its the same pub every night and I'm slowly getting to know the locals after 6 or 7 years here. How about you stick around (but don't expect to be bought a pint!) and tell us what you're launching next year so we've got something on-topic to discuss. Its the least you can do now you've opened the top-posting can of worms again for the first time in... ooh a couple of weeks ;-) Steve NB Bream
