On Tuesday 16 September 2003 02:22 pm, ed tharp wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 11:08, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 September 2003 10:05 am, Tango Echo wrote: > > > At the risk exposing my newbiness - what's up with the > > > top/bottom posting debate? I prefer top posting > > > becuase I can read it on auto preview... What is the > > > advantage to bottom posting besides a lot of scrolling > > > exercise (actually my scroll finger is already strong > > > enough, thanks)? > > well that is you... and I just post all around because I really enjoy > having other folks around who are as confused as I am.. > > > > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 05:20:51 -0700 (PDT) > > > > > > > > Tango Echo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > > > Taken in... yeah in more ways then one. Don't > > > > > > > ><this is Ed> and some times I post right in the middle of the > > > > line,, to make sure everyone attributes are really messed up > > > > > > know of > > > > > > > > > you remember the headline but someone was actually > > > > > killed over this scam: > > > > > > http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57760,00.html > > > > > > > > Pretty sad, eh? > > > > > > > > What with the freakin' top-posting today??!! > > > > > > > > LOL!
ed: I'd say we've made our point. -- cmg Well, almost... Keeping the emails neat by clipping sigs and headers definitely makes sence. It's extra work, but I can see that its just curtious. As far as "reading up" I can almost see that point as well - but I see both sides. When I'm following a thread I usually have all the emails sorted by thread with auto preview on. Since I'm going down the list of emails in the thread, I already know what the discussion is about. But to have to scroll down 5 pages to see the one liner comment seems unnecessary when I could have just seen it in 0.5 second with a top post and auto preview. If I'm lost on the comment, I just scroll down to double check... I'm assuming you don't "read up" like that because you (re)read all the comments right down to the one liner??? Also, do people that don't include any previous message in their reply (snip all) get grief too? Ed, I hope you were just joking about posting in the middle - seems a lot of people would miss what you say if you weren't! Thanks, Tango > > > > TE: > > The debate about top and bottom posting is a semi-annual event here. The > > worst, though, are people who alternate top and bottom posting in the > > same chain. > > Yep. or the ones who snip only some of the attributes.... like in this > letter... > > > FWIW, I've noticed that bottom posters do a better job of deleting the > > extraneous crap such as ads for the Store and Yahoo, and overly-long > > signatures. > > > > -- cmg > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > I just enjoy confusion.... and company<g> ________________________________________ > > I just enjoy confusion.... and company<g> __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
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