On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 1:55 PM, James Freer <jesseja...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> > Couldn't agree more jeff > > Why should people bottom post? > Q: What is annoying about bottom posting > A: You have to scroll down to the bottom of every email to reply > Q: why is it such a bad thing > A: for intelligent humans it is derogatory... with a little common > sense you can remember the thread without even having to read the > previous thread - so you DON'T read text in the wrong order. I'd like to point out that this isn't a function of common sense but of memory. If you weren't part of the conversation in the first place, a very common thing for usenet and mailing lists, you *can't* remember the thread. > > Q: is email efficient communication? > A: if the message is replied to effectively and efficiently. Why > should i have to spend time deleting all the trailers from every email > i reply to. > A very important condition, and not always adhered to. One has no way of knowing if the thread were effectively and efficiently replied to *without* reading through the entire thread. Again, in the case of usenet and mailing lists, this is something that is highly likely. Further exacerbating the problem are those who follow list/group net-iquette and those who don't. Following a thread that is top posted only is rather difficult. Following a thread that is both top and bottom posted in downright frustrating. > > Q: because the email client sets it as default. > A: humans are not lemmings. > > :-) I'd like to believe that but ... (and honestly, that's no knock to you. I don't know you, but I have known many of whom I've wondered.) Andy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
