Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> writes: > On 2012-08-16, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > And FWIW, I add my voice to those who prefer to read replies > > underneath the original text. > > Same here. I often skip reading top-posted articles entirely, since I > don't really care to take the time to start reading at the bottom, > working my up, trying to figure out exactly what the poster is > replying or referring to in the blob of context-free text at the top.
+1. A message which is top-posted is a fairly reliable indicator that the message wasn't written with much consideration for the reader, so I tend to just skip those messages. If you don't care whether your messages are read, continue to top-post. If you want to show that you've made efforts to make your message more readable, use interleaved replies and trim off material to which you're not replying <URL:http://brooksreview.net/2011/01/interleaved-email/>. -- \ “We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't | `\ scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what | _o__) annoys me.” —Jack Handey | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list