A question about top posting.

[Darwin H. Webb]

How about everyone just deal with reality and stop trying to control
others communication style.
Top posting to me takes into account the volume, time, and effort needed
to snip, scroll, and copy/paste of a 100 e-mail a day.
Get real.
You can't say this is not easier and more practical, even if your logic
is sound when looking at the face of an e-mail format.
But people's brains are quicker than any bank of computers for figuring
out patterns and after reading the top new info, can discern if you need
to scroll to reference history, and all the history is here, listed just
like most computer lists, in time descending order.

And if you don't want to read something because your to attached to your
opinions of how the universe should work, or you just want to pick up
your ball and bat and walk away, then DO IT.

But stupid control freak rules is the first rule of lost communication.
And all communication problems are owned by the receiver, not the
sender.

Top, Bottom, right to left, it doesn't matter unless you are stupid or a
fanatic.

Love & Light,
Darwin

On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 11:09 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 01:46 +0200, Cimmo wrote:
> > I think top-posting is not worse than bottom-posting, with long long 
> > long email in reply.
> 
> Cimmo, your comparison is misleading. Quoting an entire long message to
> add one line or two is bad. Top-posting is bad. Defending one bad thing
> by comparing it to another bad thing proves nothing.
> 
> Please, don't top post. And please, do trim (delete) text from previous
> messages which is not necessary to understand the context of your reply.
> That way you avoid both bad things.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
>