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[Edward Dekkers]

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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