Gary/all,
Put me in the group that prefers top posting.
Joe Takacs
Gary wrote:
> There have been any number of admonishments posted in this forum to
> "not top post" because people "don't like reading the answers before
> they know what the question is"
>
> Of course, if one follows a thread from it's beginning, one *does*
> know the question, and it is therefore more useful to have the newest
> information and developments right at the top where they will be
> visible first, without having to wade through repetitions of the same
> damn block of text.
>
> I've also seen tellingly pithy commentary that pure bottom posting is
> just as annoying, especially if the lead-in is extremely long.
>
> So, then, one is given advice to edit the quoted portion, and
> interleave one's answers.
>
> Interweaving is a lot of work, because the line breaks never match up
> properly, so one is always adding or removing ">" characters, slowing
> down what can already be a slow process.
>
> Also, of course, sometimes one *needs* the whole text to remain in a
> single bloc, to understand and/or frame the question properly. Or,
> especially when arguments get a bit heated (guilty as charged), one
> needs to quote exactly, as demonstration of one's honest intent --
> because while editing does conserve bandwidth, it can be selective in
> a bad way, too.
>
> Of course, to be *certain* that what has gone before has not been
> edited to alter meaning, one has to read the previous entries in the
> thread, anyway! Who, me, paranoid? How long have *you* been on the
> internet, friend?
>
> I've seen forums where the hard-and-fast rule is "find an existing
> thread on your topic before starting a new one", and others where
> so-called-'necroposting' (resurrecting dead threads) is a 7-day-ban(!)
> on the FIRST offense.
>
> So what this all amounts to, is that *anything* one does, top-,
> bottom-, or interweave-posting, snipping or not-snipping, is WRONG.
> Or RIGHT, depending on the situation. o_O Clear as mud, right?
>
> If you, Dear Reader, can't understand a posting simply because of the
> ordering of the paragraphs, the problem resides in the READER, not the
> POSTER -- and adjusting one's own habits is an easier fix than
> changing the whole world.
>
> And I personally would encourage posters to do so in whatever style is
> sensible and comfortable to them -- as long as it's grammatical and
> spelled correctly at least 90% of the time ;) That's all I ask.
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