Warning —top posting also with interspersed comments. 👍🏻 <— that’s a thumbs up > On Jan 15, 2019, at 1:36 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote: > > > Re: Top Posting > > To me it depends on whether there's any chance the reader won't know > what precisely you're responding to in which case in-line is > warranted. > > I don't have any quoted text in this msg (is that top posting?), is > anyone lost? > > THE REAL REASON for my responding at all is because there are people > who lurk and sometimes manage lists who will react angrily, often in > private email (cowards! :-) ), to a top-post as if you violated some > inarguable rule and you maybe should be banned or at the very least > are very rude, similar in tone to if you'd spammed the list or > whatever.
I am appalled at the nastiness regarding posting prejudices. "But, but, if your cognitive processes do not match mine, you are an idiot.” “Why should I love my neighbor as myself? I am so much better" > > I just thought I'd point out it's just a formatting opinion, a > judgement call by whoever is responding, and nothing more, it's not > some rule everyone accepts so lose the self-righteous tone. > > If anything I suspect it might have to do with the MUA one uses. > > Maybe, at the very least, accept that the person who top-posted is > looking at a very different layout than you are, one where that > top-post looks just fine? And the viewer/replier may have significantly different cognitive skills. > > I use Emacs/VM for email. It's quite good at, for example, splitting > the screen so I can look ahead (or behind) in the message if I've lost > track of some context, or even opening multiple related msgs (even if > already filed) simultaneously to go back and review what's been said > already, or forward even to see if one is about to say something which > has already been adequately addressed. > > It's probably quite a bit different than the one-way upside-down > (date-wise) scrolling on some vendor-supplied smartphone app. > > I've used them when I've had nothing else and I haven't a clue how one > can do much else than essentially "more" thru the latest, silo'd, 10^9 > spams interspersed with the occasional bit of ham 20 lines at a time > so I guess I can understand why some become desperate and angry to get > others to format their email for their convenience. > > Maybe your problem isn't the top-posting but your lousy MUA? Or, perhaps, attitude? > > -- > -Barry Shein > > Software Tool & Die | b...@theworld.com | > http://www.TheWorld.com > Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD > The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo* James R. Cutler james.cut...@consultant.com GPG keys: hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net