[sane-devel] Top posting sane?

2012-04-02 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
Nearly everyone seems to top post in this list.  May I ask you not
too?  It means that it is pointless to look through posts in a
terminal window, impossible to quickly go though a list of messages,
because what they are all about is out of sight and the reply you are
seeing is meaningless without knowing that.  You have to carry out an
investigation, often paging through and reading a lot that shouldn't
be there, just to see if the message is worth reading anyway.

Please reply to specifics.  Answer each paragraph immediately after
quoting the paragraph, rather that writing something that is supposed
to apply to an entire message or group of messages that can be found
at the end of yours.



[sane-devel] Top posting sane?

2012-04-02 Thread Gerhard Jäger
Hi Michael,

On Monday 02 April 2012 14:00:15 Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote:
> Nearly everyone seems to top post in this list.  May I ask you not
> too?  It means that it is pointless to look through posts in a
> terminal window, impossible to quickly go though a list of messages,
> because what they are all about is out of sight and the reply you are
> seeing is meaningless without knowing that.  You have to carry out an
> investigation, often paging through and reading a lot that shouldn't
> be there, just to see if the message is worth reading anyway.
> 
> Please reply to specifics.  Answer each paragraph immediately after
> quoting the paragraph, rather that writing something that is supposed
> to apply to an entire message or group of messages that can be found
> at the end of yours.

good catch, but I doubt that your request will help much.
Anyway I can only support this: no TOFU.

Cheers,
 Gerhard

-- 
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style