Hi Shrini, On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Shrinivasan T <[email protected]> wrote: > thanks for the examples. > > in all the three examples, we can get the message fully as we know how to > read top, bottom and middle replies. > > can anyone share some links from our list archives or any other mailing > list archives, that we can not get the information due to top or bottom > posting?
For example, in the conversation on promoting Linux, Niam Infotech top posted a reply on top of Jobin's top post which was on top of Kenneth's email, saying "Thanks a ton for taking this initiative. Appreciated." There is no way to tell for sure whom the poster was appreciating, unless he mentions it. The same applies for criticism as well. Also removing all the context from a reply and posting the reply alone is also considered top posting by many people. There is no way to absolutely ascertain the target of the reply. It might be possible to apply common sense and context to find out, but that might not be possible always. And while I agree that we're past the era of bandwidth issues (just my personal opinion), why should we repeatedly archive the context in every single mail though the mailing list already does that? We're wasting hard disk space in addition to making the reading of emails from the list difficult. Just my couple of cents to this issue. Thanks & Regards, Guruprasad _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
