(my first and last post in this thread, I promise.) On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Jim Manley wrote: > Well, I am on 12 lists & I get well over 100 emails a day & if I > scrolled to read them all I would be scrolling all day. Most top post > because it is more convient.
Most top post because they're lazy. One thing I almost invariably notice with top-posters is they *never* trim off unnecessary content; items not relevant to the conversation, and worse, message headers and signatures. I've left the rest of Jim's message intact, (at the bottom of this post,) as a small, but effective example. We don't need to see signatures repeated multiple times, we don't need to see all the mail headers other than who said what. With my friends I've seen simple discussions on what to do over the weekend grow to over 20k per message because they leave the mail headers intact; but the real content of their email is two lines. Bottom-posting does not mean placing your entire response at the end. It generally means just quoting the necessary text, (trimming excess,) then typing your response after that. Repeat for the rest of the quoted text, so you're addressing items point by point. Cut what you don't need, ultimately leading to chopping all those signatures. I imagine the bottom-posting method grew out of the need for efficiency; one observation I've seen is anyone who's been on the net for over a decade bottom-posts, the rest top-posts. Bandwidth and disk space may be cheap and limitless today compared to the past (we used to think that of gas too, no?) But we shouldn't abandon courtesy for convenience. I'm a bottom-poster myself, but adapt to whatever is being used. If possible I'll try to "transform" a message into a bottom-post. 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