imho the number of people adverse to top postings equals more or less the number of people being annoyed by down-postings. just recently i got mail over 4 pages (with a screen 19200x1200 and 11px font!) with just one (and above all rather meaninmgless) sentence below.
ususally i know from the subject and a short glance a) what the thread was about or b) if i am inclined to read the mail. this top/down is not going to solve anything ... there are imho two rules to be observed instead: - use meaningful subjects - quote only what is absolutely necessary and btw: for the sake of future generations and the archive: _never_ do something like "oh! i found a solution! it's here: http://someoutsideurl. bye" there is little more annoying but searching the archives for a specific problem, hitting a "solved"-post and seeing it points to a dead link w/o citing the solution! _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community