On Jun 09 2005, John Carline wrote: > But, it would make my reading/following of threads much easier if I > didn't have to scroll down to the bottom of post after post in a long > string just to read the one line added to the 200 I've already read.
The point is: if somebody makes you scroll down many pages so that you can see his/her answer, then the problem is that that person is not using the right way of posting messages. Quoting messages should be to the point and only leave relevant pieces of older messages. And, of course, the attribution of each quote to the person that generated it. > It would be much better added at the top, where it pops onto the screen > immediately and I can go on to the next post. This isn't the case if what you are replying to needs a detailed answer. And this is usually the case of a technical mailing list, like this one. OTOH, if the person is only replying to a message in general, I see little motivation to the practice of top-posting. In fact, if the person doesn't really care about preserving the context to where he/she is replying, then why quote the message at all? Just start a reply to the thread from scratch. Since that person is already assuming that the others are following the thread to where the message is being sent, why preserve the older messages' contents? Just another view on this polemical issue, Rogério Brito. -- Learn to quote e-mails decently at: http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html http://pub.tsn.dk/how-to-quote.php http://learn.to/quote http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/toppost.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
