On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 10:22:09PM -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: > What the top-posting vs. bottom-posting folks don't seem to recognize is > that both have their uses.
Maybe. But choosing just one option is very limiting, like claiming that talking about oneself has its merits and talking about others has its merits - where is the vast sea of other possibilities? > In a business conversation, a thread may go thru 20 exchanges, and then > someone new gets added. That person is going to be completely lost without > the history to follow up on, and the existing respondents aren't going to > appreciate trying to catch them up. Interesting scenario. You probably are right with this one. [...] > So.let's not restart this war, eh? It'll never be solved anyway. But if > you're going to bottom-post, you really do need to trim. Paging through > multiple screens to read a one-line response is just irritating. I do not want to (re)start any war but I feel an urge to share an opinion, which is, I think a problem with top-bottom is more related to introduction of poor mailing applications. I cannot remember when in my life I had to "page down" to find one line response (on the bottom, I presume) because when I want to go there, I press "End" on my keyboard. It is that easy. I could have written that poor MUAs lead to respondends being unable to trim their emails to manageable size (do they even have keyboards, nowadays?), then eventually complaining about poor experience with email (but not so much about poor apps), then perhaps murmuring about "mail going to be dead" (because, with such a poor experience, what else could happen) and so on. But, life is short and if the rest of the world wants to shoot itself in the knee, why not. First, it is their knee. Then, they might find it pleasurable. And besides, someone could have thought I wanted to start a flame, while I have better things to do :-) . -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
