Giz Bowe wrote:
Why is top-posting an abomination? People who send unedited replies
should be [insert favorite torture here]. There's nothing worse than
scrolling through 4 or 5 or more levels of reply only to see a "Me too."
At least with top-posting, I can immediately delete. You imply that
top-posting by definition includes no editing. There are plenty of
people who don't edit who are bottom-posters. Top-posting is not the
abomination - the failure to snip is.
At 01:21 PM 12/14/2006, you wrote:
I consider the top-posting style with the whole thread quoted below
to be an abomination and a huge mistake on the part of the designers
of email programs that designed their quoting to work that way. It
leads to a huge amount of completely unnecessary material to be sent
and encourages stupid replies where pages and pages are quoted with
nothing but "I agree!" or "Thanks!" at the top.
It gets to be particularly messy, as you can see in this message,
because I have my e-mail client set to begin the reply after the quoted
material. So David's message to which you replied is between your reply
and mine.
I think the bad thing about top-posting is that it is too easy to simply
type a "me too" response without even looking at how much quoted
material there is.
At least when you reply at the bottom, it's a bit more obvious whether
there's a ton of stuff above your reply or not, and can do some
judicious snipping.
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David H. Bailey
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