On 2013-08-20 18:40, Andy McKenzie wrote: > Well, since someone else brought it up... I really prefer top posting. In > general, I don't WANT to reread every message: I want to quickly get to > whatever is new.
Right, which is why when top posting you should cut to the relevant context. > What REALLY gets to me is the people who try to insist that their way is > objectively RIGHT, and everyone else is practicing bad habits, or polluting > the net, or some other nonsense like that. The fact is, we just have > different work flow preferences. You like one thing, I like another. If > you want to present your view rationally and objectively, or talk about > your preferred layouts, that's fine. But let's not start saying someone > has "bad habits" because they disagree with you. In Gmail (which it appears that you are using) I don't think it really matters, since it selectively collapses the context anyway. It certainly matters when reading in a mail client that doesn't collapse quotes (which, in my opinion, is not something a mail reader should be doing anyway). I agree this is a personal opinion, but mixing the two in a single thread often makes message flow completely incomprehensible. I am also in the bottomposting camp, I'm not very dogmatic about it as long as people don't mix the two in a single thread. Then it just becomes functionally irritating.
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