Andrew, you are right on with your final point about absurdity.
Hopefully this vile top-posting will illustrate exactly why.
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
B.
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
On Thursday 17 June 2004 09:21, Troy Settle wrote:
However, my preference is for top posting. The reason, is that in order to read my message here, you had to scroll through ~70 lines of previous discussion. Stuff that you've /already/ read since you've been following this thread.
That's because you didn't trim anything. To see what I wrote to you You had less than 10 lines to look at. Please don't use absurdity to try and prove your point.
Oh! Wait, you found this in an archive, so you /want/ to have the thread fully quoted so you don't have to go hunting down the references. Good, that's why I didn't trim this post.
Um no, that's why the archives are threaded themselves. Attempt at reductio ad dbsurdum #2 failed.
Oh, wait, the guys that are following this thread as it's being discussed would prefer that I trim out the stuff up there, in which case, I would be neither top posting, nor bottom posting. This message would be a post unto itself that wouldn't have any quoted material at all. Afterall, you've already read the referenced material.
I consider trimming the quoted text and replying to the bits you keep as they occur bottom posting -- your text is FOLLOWING the relevant bits of the conversation.
Inline posting is something completely different and it's even more heinous:
So, the bottom line is that top-posters are lazy? [ yes, they are
absolutely. Inline posters are even worse! ] I say yes, we are. We
don't want to have to scroll through pages of quoted material just to get to the new stuff. [ so trim your damned posts ]
That above is an example of inline posting. Some managers have a penchant for that.
I say that the bottom posters are lazy. They want a bottom post so that they enter into a thread 12 messages later, and not have to read the thread 'backwards.' Read your mail to begin with, and you wouldn't have this problem, and you would actually start to appreciate the top posters, because they're making it so you don't have to scroll through ~70 lines of quoted material to get to the new stuff.
That's not laziness, that is following natural language laws. I have over 25k messages in my local copy of asterisk-users. My MUA understands message threading so if people posted the One True Way (editing quoted content and replying underneath, as I am doing to you here) then there is no problem following the flow of the thread, and if I need more information I move up to the message parent and see the entire message.
It's not a difficult thing to understand, and this absurdity you're spewing to try and prove your point only goes to show that your argument doesn't hold much logic.
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