On 21/06/03 23:20 +0530, K. Ghosh wrote: <snip> > Just out of curiosity, does this have something to do with the different > software mails are read with (mutt/pine/evolution)? I use Sylpheed No, just the way we leart to read. I read English left to right, top to bottom. Top posting means that I have to go down the mail to read the context, then figure out what the poster is replying to, then come back to see the reply. Given that some of us easily do a few hundred mails a day, in addition to normal work email, we *cannot* keep all threads in memory.
> mailer, and most of the time I find that top posting is more convenient > for me to read, specially for replies in which the writer has not Deal with a few hundred mails daily, all top posted, all of which need a lot of thinking to understand correctly. > bothered to snip the post he is replying to (usually. after digging to > the end of the huge repeat, there is a trivial two or three word > reply...). I find that the chronological order is maintained by the > header alone, so why should top posting disturb this ? or, am I missing > something ? Not a question of chronological order, a question of context. It makes it hard to deal with context. Tom Christiansen used to have a post on this in usenet, on why to trim email, why not to top post, and how to quote properly. If all the data is at the top of the email, and no reference to context is needed, then top posting is acceptable. If you need context, then top posting is simply unacceptable. Devdas Bhagat ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
