What the top-posting vs. bottom-posting folks don't seem to recognize is that both have their uses.
In a business conversation, a thread may go thru 20 exchanges, and then someone new gets added. That person is going to be completely lost without the history to follow up on, and the existing respondents aren't going to appreciate trying to catch them up. In a personal conversation between two people, it's reasonable to bottom-post, since both sides presumably have the entire thread handy. List conversations also (typically) make the history easy to find. And then there's what one is just plain used to. I was raised on bottom-posting, but found it impossible to follow threads and joined the top-posting world. And with bandwidth essentially no longer an issue, it's at worst harmless. So.let's not restart this war, eh? It'll never be solved anyway. But if you're going to bottom-post, you really do need to trim. Paging through multiple screens to read a one-line response is just irritating. .phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
