File System
Edward Dekkers
edward at tripled.iinet.net.au
Wed Mar 22 03:21:53 UTC 2006
Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Christofer C. Bell wrote:
>>
>> To be honest, no one really cares if you top post or not, but it only
>> takes a moment to ridicule someone over the Internet. Some folks need
>> the self-esteem boost of making fun of a top-poster.
>
> Especially technical types like things to make sense. Inline replies
> make a lot of sense, since one can reply to individual remarks without
> establishing context in your reply. It saves a lot of typing.
>
> "bottom-posting" works about as well, as long as you trim the message to
> which you're replying appropriately.
>
> "top-posting" is just ridiculous. The context of the reply is all below
> the reply itself, which makes it difficult to follow, logically. A
> reader needs to scroll down, read the original message for context, then
> scroll up to read the reply. In a mailing list, where subscribers
> probably have the archives to look at, you might as well trim the reply
> out entirely as top-post.
>
> By far the worst, situation, though, is mixing reply styles. If context
> is *all over the place*, it becomes extremely tedious to scroll around
> and figure out who's replying to what, where. Since top-posting will
> almost always create this situation, COURTEOUS members discourage it.
>
> Courtesy is the name of the game. Make it easy for people to help you.
>
I'm 100% with you Gordon (as you well know over the years), but maybe
it's us?
Maybe we need to purchase 30" LCDs with a 3200x2000 resolution so no
more scrolling is needed?
It beats explaining courtesy every time this happens.
I'll place my order now - shall I grab you one too?
:)
Regards,
Ed.
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