On 8/3/11 3:01 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
*ANY* situation where the elapsed time between messages is longer than the recipient's ability to retain the 'frame of reference' (i.e., the previous message) in memory, it _is_ harder for the recipient of the message to follow top-posted content than interleaved/bottom-posted. They _do_ have to scan back-and-forth to find out (first) _what_ is being talked about,and (then) what the response is.
But you can learn so very many interesting things if you read down to the part that has the internal discussion about what they wish to tell you, which they completely loose track of by they time they send you a nice sanitized statement way up top..... ;-)
--Jon Radel j...@radel.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
