On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 11:32:19 -0400, Gord Tomlin 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. > RFCs of the same vintage also deprecate quoting the entire preceding thread in each ply. This was almost self-enforcing when bandwidth and storage were expensive. I have always followed that practice.
Perhaps LISTSERVs and Majordomos are obsolete and should be replaced by blogs or wikis. Painful? What's painful? With a good reader, scrolling to the bottom is a single keystroke. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
