* Bill Galbraith -- Saturday 21 July 2007: > If you are following a discussion, it's nice to see the reply at the > top, so that you don't have to scroll through a lot of stuff, just to > see "okay, I'll try that."
Top posting is always annoying and wrong. Of course, it's bad to have 100 quoted lines with a single "OK" under them. But the problem here is not the "OK", but the nonsensical hundred lines! We don't need the whole thread repeated in each of its messages. People are supposed to quote only if necessary, and only as much as is necessary. This is at most a few lines, so the scrolling down complaint isn't valid at all. (And no, I didn't invent these rules. :-) m. -- A: Because it destroys the flow of the conversation Q: Why is top-posting bad? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
