Gord According to the Wikipedia article on the topic, [1] the great benefit of bottom posting is to present a chronological story. But in what sort of environment? This makes sense when an e-mail sequence is being developed and - crucially - the e-mail sequence is copied to folk who were not copied originally. This is not a feature of a "list" environment where all posts may be being received and/or subscribers work from the archives - as I do.
- [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Incidentally, this article mentions two RFCs: 1855 and 3676. I find Google works just as well on a Sunday as any other day - or perhaps the reason is more related to Eric Liddell, of whom lately we have been reminded. - Chris Mason On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 11:32:19 -0400, Gord Tomlin <[email protected]> wrote: >While there is an RFC (I'm not going to hunt for the number on a Sunday) >that specifies that bottom posting is "correct", as a reader I find >bottom posting to be hugely counterproductive. When reading a thread in >order, bottom posting requires the reader to scroll past what has >already been written. The longer the thread gets, the more painful this >becomes. I do not use the web interface, so I am not aware of the >problems its users are encountering, but bottom posting is enough of an >annoyance for me in my email client. > >I am happy to comply with this request. > >-- > >Regards, Gord Tomlin >Action Software International >(a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) >Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 > >On 2012-07-29 10:03, John Gilmore wrote: >> Without laying claim to being one of the "luminaries of the list", I >> shall try to comply with this eminently reasonable request. >> >> Is someone also addressing the web interface's apparently multiple >> structural problems? If not, they will certainly worsen. >> >> John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA >> >> On 7/29/12, Shane Ginnane <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Might I request the luminaries of the list perhaps indulge those of us >>> unfortunate enough to be using the (severely crippled) web interface and >>> *top >>> post* in replies ?. >>> >>> That way we may get the gist of the response from "mouse over" without >>> having >>> to select every post. >>> Yes, that is how bad things have become. >>> >>> Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
