2009/6/16 Trevor <[email protected]> > > > I top post because as far as I ever understood it, the *quoted* part was > only there as a gentle reminder to those of us with very poor memories;
I prefer the term "posting in context" to top or bottom posting... > > and can > follow each sub-thread of the 'thread' back to the poor soul who dared > to start the original thread :)) Ah. That would probably be me then. > Purely as an aside, I have often wondered whether the whole top/bottom > posting argument is actually relevant today anyway - and just how much > of the 'bottom posting' preference can be laid at the door of > 'historical' and 'conservative' reasons I have to deal with both. My employers adoption of Exchange, Outlook and Blackberrys means that posting in context is either misunderstood or illegible when done. Personally, I prefer this method as it also encourages the poster to snip unnecessary text when replying as well as making it easy to answer several points without the reader having to continually scan up and down the message to see what points were being referred to. > 'old' does not necessarily always equal > 'better' :-) Can't argue with that! > Maybe the group as a whole should consider opening a Poll ...and cause a major argument? -- David Morris blog: http://www.brassedoff.net/wp
