On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:40:14AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-03-22 11:45, Chris Bannister wrote: >> Bottom posting of course is just as bad or worse than top posting. > > The only person who can say that with a straight face is one who has > spent too much time using Windows.
Or who reads quite a lot of mail from outhouse users. >> At least with top posting you don't have to scroll through _all_ the >> previous posts just to see if the reply is relevant. > > The problem isn't bottom-posting, it's... > >> More importantly, IMHO is deleting any text which is not relevant. > > This. Which should be done whether you top- or bottom-post. It's just > that with top-posting it's easy to forget to snip out all the crud. Good point!, but I regret it is more to do with laziness and this "throw away and damn the consequences[1]" way of life. :( One of the mailing lists I am on suffers horribly from top posters, the same software is also availabe for windoze. The admin occassionaly posts a message saying along the lines of "bottom posting is the preferred method ..." with the consequence that each post grows + grows + grows until it gets really annoying scrolling just to read some silly remark. It was mentioned that inline posting and deleting unnecessary text is a better method, but that was shrugged off as being too confusing. :o So in that situation I was happier[2] seeing a silly top posting message. [1] Remembering the story of the Big Mac which was forgotten about in a cupboard and when the person noticed it there a year or so later it looked just as "fresh" as the day it was purchased - no sign of decay ... nothing, not even the rodents etc. had bothered it. [2] Only because I didn't have to press <space> a dozen or so times. -- Chris. ====== I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. -- Stephen F Roberts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org