Top-posting forces your reader to work . . . __________ It's been my impression that those who participate in the posts on these lists:
- Usually compose Subject: lines which are a reasonably informative description of the issue within the message. - If reading any particular post in a thread, we have usually already become familiar with the discussion thus far by reading the earlier comments on an issue. Few of us, I imagine, choose to come into an intriguing subject, judged by the Subject: line, anywhere but in the beginning. Alternately, some posters may enter their reading at the first response from one of those among us who historically have seemed to be the best informed among us. These members, bless them all, usually encapsulate the subject of the discussion to that point succinctly, and trim off the balance. - Are most often surgical in removing extraneous earlier material from prior postings on the thread. Since the observations above, I believe, are generally valid, I personally find no difficulty following top postings. Since there's usually little below their addition aside from a modest encapsulation of what in the prior postings in the thread it is on which they wish to amplify, the need to read back and forth from the bottom-up to follow a top-posted addition to a conversation with which our readers are already familiar from prior postings on a thread is moot. Sorry if this comment was hard to decipher. stanton --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
