Trevor wrote: > I'm with top posting every time, my apologies to all the other long-time > NG readers, but top posting with proper snipping is far closer to normal > conversation and reduces bandwidth as well.
How does it reduce bandwidth? The thing that reduces bandwidth is sensible snipping, not top- or bottom- posting. The thing that seriously eats bandwidth is when someone bungs a reply at the top and (in corporate email style) leaves the whole of the previous reply unedited below, and then the next person does the same, then the next... > When we chat face-to-face in a group we don't say "Jim said xxxx and I > think .....", and we don't say "Jim said xxxx after Bill said yyyy and > Fred said zzzz" (ooops, sorry if I've just put you all to sleep <g>). You miss the point that this is *not* normal face-to-face conversation. I may pick up your reply and several others this morning, but have forgotten what other people wrote yesterday. I don't want to read your reply, then have to scroll down to see what you were referring to. This is not a live chat room. We are not all here at the same time reading people's posts in real time. This is not the same as a group having a face-to-face conversation, so different rules apply! -- Martin Clark Pennine Waterways Website http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk
