On 6/13/09 4:21 PM, "Kyle Hansen" <pi...@speakeasy.net> Broadcast into the ether:
And page 2 of why bottom posting is considered the polite way to handle things, especially in a back and forth forum: Top-posting forces your reader to work A top-posted message is easy to write; since, it doesn't require the writer to edit any of the original message. As a consequence, a top-posted message makes the message reader do the work of understanding what was said. Anyone new to a top-posted conversation has to read a message unnaturally from bottom to top. A reader may have to skip over the new top-posted comment at the top of the message and scroll down to the bottom of the message to see the context for the comment, then scroll back up, message by message, to read the added comments in an unnatural bottom-to-top reverse order. No editing has been done by the top-posting writers; so, each message contains redundant signatures and irrelevant material. And a few more links: http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html http://mailformat.dan.info/quoting/bottom-posting.html http://www.mail-archive.com/bri...@coollist.com/msg00178.html Kyle Hansen -- This is the way the world ends...not with a bang, but a twitter. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
