On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 2:20 PM John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote:
> Personally I think that's a load of crap. Usenet and email postings are > sequential. Scrolling through hundreds of lines of text all indented with > various amounts of ">>>" depending on when it was posted is not only mind > numbing but leads to ignoring posts. I've lost track of the number of > times I hit the X on the email when there are pages of old stuff that I > just read on a previous email. Now I have to carefully scroll through to > find the reply. Not worth my time. > It's not just the order of posting---it's also the courteous habit of editing the post so that your response follows just the minimal snippet necessary to provide the context to what you're saying. I think that more than 12 lines of context almost always mean that such courtesy was not extended. Another thing---it's not just the Linux invaders who insist on bottom-posting---it's an age-honored tradition of the Usenet, so I am surprised that you are surprised by it. _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
