Understood from that perspective, perhaps you can see why people might
dislike top posting.
Rather, your entire response is at the top, separating itself from the
context to which it refers.
Furthermore, it can be very confusing to understand precisely what you're
referring to, because your response doesn't follow those parts of the post
to which you refer.
Sometimes top posting makes it really hard to follow which parts of the
previous posters words are being referenced.
If you think about it from the perspective of all of the readers of a
thread, you might feel differently, however.
I can understand why you might feel that way.
--On November 23, 2007 10:22:50 AM +1300 Brent Jones
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Sorry if this is a bit off topic for this list, but it seem to be a
comment that comes up very regularly; "please don't top post..."
I for one prefer top posting, as usually I have read a particular thread
enough times that I like to cut to the chase and read the new input
without having to scroll down, sometimes navigating an endless nesting
of >>> For me, reading through top posted replies saves time and
effort. If I happened to miss something in the conversation I can
scroll down to find it.
Anyone else feel the same?
Cheers,
Brent
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