On 2009-03-24 07:06, Chris Bannister wrote:
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. :(
[snip]
[2] Only because I didn't have to press <space> a dozen or so times.
Yet another reason for in-/bottom-posting with context: finding the
email that it is replying to can be a bit tricky.
http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson/Far_away_replies.png
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