Eliot Blennerhassett wrote:
Volker promotes bottom posting while I contend that the benefit of TOP postings is that for "everyone" who has read it at least once before, we don't have to scroll through all that verbiage to see the new content.
Actually, quite a few (me included) *hadn't* read it before. We may, in fact not be all that interested in reading it, and you've given it to us anyway. We may only be interested in what *you* have to say, and would like it to be put in context. If we want further input, we can read the prior messages, this *is* a mailing list after all.
(As long as the top post is comprehensible standalone without the quote) The quoted content below is provided for the few who didn't read the last email in this thread.
You increase readability by splitting up your reply into relevant paragraphs. Without this, your whole reply has been devalued by forcing me to read all of which you are replying to, and trying to work out your point. > It becomes a real pain to scan through a thread if one has to scroll to
the bottom to see the new content. Did you get to this line?
Yes, but you need to work on trimming your replies. Rex
