Top posting works most of the time for me. I'd rather not scroll
endlessly down looking for the new material. If I need a reference,
I'll scroll and read it, when I need it. Just please don't subject me
to it every message. Especially on an active topic that gets ten
messages in a couple of hours. My memory is not quite that bad.
I have interleaved, especially when there was a series of questions in
one post and it makes more sense.
But most of all. Please, please, please trim the outdated and
irrelevant stuff. I see horribly long messages in some mailing lists
with everything quoted over and over, even the stuff at the bottom of
each message that gets auto added by the host. Click-drag to
highlight, then hit delete. Pretty please....
-alex
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 08:03:32PM -0000, Gary wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>
> That's because people also have to learn how to trim. :)
>
>>
>> I've also seen tellingly pithy commentary that pure bottom posting is
>> just as annoying, especially if the lead-in is extremely long.
>
> Yes, of course. I remember an old martial arts mailing list--one fellow
> would leave in literally pages of commentary only to add at the end...
>
> good post.
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