Does anyone really believe this is an example of a proper response and not simple brazen laziness?
(/me just shakes his head and walks away.) On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 21:55, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > Thinking about it I guess the perfect solution would be if my email > client automagically jumped to the top of the non-quoted text. > > Stuart Jansen wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 19:42, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > > > >>I just had another thought about the whole top-posting business. All of > >>your favorite news sites top-post. Okay, so the comments are > >>bottom-posted, but the first news item you see is the most recent one. I > >>prefer it that way. > > > > > > > > Your analogy doesn't fit. News articles aren't threaded discussions. I > > agree that new threads should be at the top, but within the thread it is > > most useful when the discussion is chronological (oldest to newest). > > It's all about context and signal to noise. > > > > The biggest problem with top posting is it encourages people to simply > > include the entire previous message, sig and all. Because some top > > posters also inline comments, I have to scroll through the whole thing. > > (Higher noise.) The only thing worse than top posting is bottom posting > > a "me too" in a long thread that never had any content snipped out. (All > > noise.) Many online sites handle this by simply not providing a way to > > quote another message easily. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > ____________________ > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED], AIM:StuartMJansen> When in doubt, use brute force. -- Ken Thompson, co-creator of Unix
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