I appreciated the links you provided previously, they were certainly enlightening, and am not interested in arguing which method is the better of the two. However, this particular message from you, (see below), does prompt me to make a couple of comments.
Calling those with a different opinion than yourself ignorant is a very clear illustration of an extremely narrow point of view. I'm a free thinker, by at large, and have carefully considered both sides to this debate. I believe top posting is the better of the two, but I don't feel your view is ignorant just because I disagree with it. And, just because something is authoratative, does not mean it is right, logical, or better. It just means someone at a site with money or clout happened to agree with that stance and spent a few seconds uploading an article to their web server. *smile*
For thousands of years, monarchies were the "authoratative" means by which a country was governed. Luckily, some free thinkers came along and decided it was more important to do what made sense, rather than what was authoratative. Hence, democracy was born. Widen your point of view, and be more accepting of those who think differently than yourself. You may not change your mind, which is totally fine, but you may find that there are better ways of doing things.
Access Curmudgeon wrote:
Yes top posting exists. It is tolerated more places than not, and here especially, so mostly I have stopped complaining. That does not make it less ignorant. At the beginning, MacVisionaries attracted some real icons in the field, like Joe Clark and Peter Korn. But the signal to noise ratio is too low to keep those folks around. That is okay, social listservs have their place on the 'Net too. David, you go ahead and write that authoritative article and get someone else to post it. You will forgive me if I do not hold my breath in the mean time!
