Why do I top post? yes i am lazy! After being with gmail since it was in beta, I still don't have an option to god damned bottom-post by default!!
On 7 November 2013 01:15, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > tldr > > On 11/6/13, Alexander Huemer <alexander.hue...@xx.vu> wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 09:38:35PM +0100, Alexander Huemer wrote: >>> P.S. I passionately hate people who top-post, don't give enough >>> details and cannot say hi or bye in an email. >> >> Well, this escalated quickly. >> Let's forget about this hi or bye thing. >> Top-posting though completely ruins a conversation on a mailing list. >> It's impossible to properly quote more than one past email of a thread. >> I do not understand why people do this. >> It makes me angry, because it shows very little respect for the >> communication partners on the mailing list. >> I have the expression that people who top-post never spend a single >> second thinking about the implications of their doings, no matter how >> many emails they write and read (and that can be thousands) where they >> could notice that _their_ doings ruined the quoting that other people >> tried to do. >> Top-posting is in the same category of doing as: >> - parking over two parking lots >> - not using the blinker >> - this [1] >> >> The common property of these doings is that the positive impact on the >> doer is very little and the negative impact on the receiver of the doing >> is big. >> Top posting saves 1..2 keystrokes in a decent MUA with a terrible effect >> on the whole mailing list and also for the person who has made the >> decision to top-post itself! This person itself is unable to properly >> reconstruct what happened in a thread from looking at a single email. >> The only possible conclusion I can draw is that top-posters aren't very >> clever. This would not bother me if this wouldn't steal time from all >> the people on all the mailing lists who try to help. For free (as in >> beer). >> >> I won't say anything about lack of details I initially criticized, >> because this email is already so long that many people already stopped >> before reaching this point. >> >> Kind regards, >> -Alex >> >> [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reihe_Einkaufswagen.JPG >> >> >