On Monday 28 March 2005 08:12, Per Jessen wrote: > On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 08:30:37 -0600, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > >Non-top-posting forces the reader to SCROLL DOWN to reach the > >(new) text that is contributed by a message. There are many > >in the internet community who consider scrolling down to be > >wasted time and effort. > > With top-posting you still need to scroll down to get the context.
Yes, no difference in effort. However, to me, it just doesn't make sense to do anything other than interleaving quoted text with replies, the replies immediately following the relevant quotation. > > >This is borne out in mailing lists run for type-1 personalities. > > Please enlighten me - I have no idea what those are. Presumably anyone who considers they know best! Usually those who call themselves type-1 have someone else read their mail for them anyway, they consider themselves too important to do menial tasks themselves. > > There is a plethora of mail handling applications out there - old, new, > ancient, graphical, text-based - personally I would recommend aiming for > the lowest common denominator, not just the "right" ones. > Precisely. IMO the etiquette problem that some people have is not cropping bits of the quoted message which are not referenced in the reply. Regards Brian Beesley _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
