On Tuesday 24 June 2003 16:28, William Kenworthy wrote: > Bottom posting that are not very severely trimmed > /dev/null > > Please understand that bottom posting in many email readers is severely > painful, just as the same as top posting can be in others - there's a > reason why top posting is so popular! > > This comes up regularly, and if memory serves me correctly, top posting > is actually the more correct method by history, but not by much > > It can create an almost religious argument - live and let live please! > > You can bottom post, thats fine, just understand that many of your > messages will not get read ... >
<rant> Oh dear. When I read this, I almost wanted to rip my hair out ;). I do feel that this could spark a debate of emacs vs. vim proportion (well, maybe not *that* large). However, top posting is one of *the* most annoying things I have EVER come accross. It happens WAY too frequently here (*especially* on here on the GUML) and on the LKML. I find it _much_ harder to follow a thread that has been broken by top posting. Mind you, if you have a _proper_ cleint (KMail does this beautifully), threads that have no new messages are collapsed when you switch to a certain folder, and threads with new messages are expanded. Also, your 'Goto Next Unread' button is your friend. Top posting is out of hand on this ML, IMHO. When a thread has 7 top posts in one day, it's just plain silly. You may agree with this point and be aware it happens more than infrequently on here. </rant> -- Zack Gilburd http://tehunlose.com GnuPG Key ID: A79A45668240AB6C
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