Op 18-01-10 19:01, Programmer In Training schreef: > On 1/18/2010 8:53 AM, Robert L Cochran wrote: > >> I top post. >> >> I don't think it helps to beat on people for their posting styles. It >> helps simply to respond to the issue under discussion. >> >> Bob >> > <snip> > > The problem with top posting, a problem no one seems to understand > despite it being so simple, is that top-posting BREAKS THE NORMAL > READING BEHAVIOR OF EVERY SINGLE HUMAN ON THE PLANET! We don't read from > bottom to top, it's top to bottom. > > With top posting you read the solution before you ever learn what the > problem was. Also, not editing out information you aren't directly > responding to wastes bandwidth (whether or not broadband penetration is > high in your country (US is ranked 17th for broadband penetration) is of > no concern). It wastes bandwidth and takes up extra, unnecessary room on > a users computer or in their mail account. > > <...> > I always try to adhere to nettiquette standards, so I will try not to top-post. But I always completely disagree with the reasons given for it. Of course, if someone reads a complete thread at once, the argument given mostly is correct: you read the original post first, and the following posts after that in sequence. So than top-posting makes clumsy reading indeed. But that' s not how at least *I* read messages on the many mailing lists I follow. When new postings to an existing thread arrive in my mailbox, I have read the postings prior to that post already earlier, so I don' t have to read them again. For me, scrolling down all the previous postings is a waste of time and energy. And frustrating, to be honest... Same goes for snail mail: all the letters that came in yesterday and before are on a stack already, and the new letters that come in today go on top of that. So not for every single human on the planet top-posting breaks the normal reading behaviour (unless, of course, I'm not considered a human being on this planet :-)) Again, I will adhere to nettiquette, but I felt I should give some counter-arguments.
By the way, the GIMP is a great program! regards, Jogchum Reitsma > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user >
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