On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:09:16PM +0930, James McArthur wrote: > Not so much etiquette, more 'mob-rules'. I prefer top-posting since it > means I can see, at a glance, everything some one has written. Don't > need to search through a mail to find what someone wants to say.
First of all, for anything but very simple threads, that notion is fallacy. You will have to get context for each comment. But with top posting, they are not matched up, so you have to search for each one by scanning the entirety of earlier messages. But even if you do not agree with the merits of in-line/bottom posting, if you persist in top posting where the agreed standard is bottom-posting you will wreak havoc on readability. Look what your format has done to me on this list where everyone else uses bottom-posting for replies. The next poor schmuck has to read the bottom, then the top, and then the middle! I personally get actually pissed-off about top-posters if I think about it too hard, but at work I am forced into this model by virtue of the fact that everyone uses Lotus Notes, which makes it difficult to choose another style. So I conform, since I am not going to be able to get them to switch, and _my_ posts are for THEM. > On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 11:19, Peter McCracken wrote: > > And perhaps someone could answer why bottom-posting is better, anyway? > > I'll obey it, if that's etiquette. But I would have thought top posts > > were easier to read. -- Richard Kilgore [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
