* [EMAIL PROTECTED] is quoted & my replies are inline below : > Steve Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 写于 2007-05-29 12:19:43: > > You could say that top posting is easier to write, but bottom posting > > is easier to read. The extra effort of one poster saves all the > > readers the same amount of effort. For a group, bottom posting keeps > > everyone on track. And if done well, individual posts can stand alone > > in an archive without a peruser having to go paging through a whole > > thread. > > It seems that top-posters and bottom-posters belongs to different party and > no one can convice another. > > An explaination why top-post is easier to read: > When I am viewing an e-mail, the reply is the main part of the message and > I usually quite aware of what the original post is. So I should be able to > see the reply when I open the message.
Notice how I have set up my reply attribution above. It lets people know to look down for my comments. > If the message is bottom post, I will have to scroll down and down to find > where the author really start to say something. If the reply starts on line > 1000 while the messages ends on line 2000 it will be quite difficult to > know line 1000 is the start of reply and I should read from that line. When replying to very long messages it's best to trim the quoted message, leaving only relevant parts to your reply and noting where you have trimmed with something like <snip>, to avoid that problem > While for the top-post, I know the first line is the start of reply and I > can read the reply without any difficulty. In an active forum, threads > grown long quickly, with top-post, we focus on what the message saids and > waste no time. That's fine for one to one emails where you can usually remember what the conversation is with that person, but on lists where there are hundreds of messages it is difficult to remember details you need to keep context. In particular it's better for people searching list archives for similar problems years later - it minimises the time to find answers. > Write top-post or bottom-post makes no difference for me, the problem is > that I found bottom-post is harder to read since I will have to skim all > "original messages" before I could read the actual reply. Again, if people trimmed as they went that shouldn't be a problem. > Well, since no one could convice another, I'll stick to the "community > rule". :) -- Troy Piggins | http://piggo.com/~troy __ ___ RLU#415538 \ \ / (_)_ __ ,-O (o- O \ V /| | ' \ O ) //\ O Vim 7.0.22 \_/ |_|_|_|_| `-O V_/_ OOO
