Howzit Houghi? Personally I find bottom posting a serious pain in the bottom ;-) and a complete waste of time. If I'm scanning thru loads of emails and something catches my eye I want to see it in the preview panel immediately without having to page down one or more pages before finding the pertinent information, before moving on to the next message. After seeing the preview I have a number of options:
1. I can ignore the thread. 2. I can try and make head or tail by reading all the posts in the email even tho some may be top posted or edited or paraphrased or middle posted or whatever. 3. If I have not been following a thread I can investigate the thread by reading all previously posted emails. I keep all threads until there's a week of inactivity before deleting ignored threads. Watched threads I keep for future reference. Just my method of madness. I think it all comes down to how individuals process information and how each of us manages that information. As we are all different, I don't think it is up to any one person or group of people to tell other people how to manage their time and information. BTW this has nothing to do with netiquette this is purely a difference in cognitive processing and there is no one way or right way to do it, each person is different. If top posting irks you enough then filter out habitual top posters. Just appreciate that not everyone does things the same way you do, the internet is global and requires a degree of tolerance when dealing with people of different backgrounds, cultures, knowledge, experience, etc.. Just my 2ยข worth, no offence intended and hopefully none taken. Cheers Bruce On Monday 17 October 2005 04:49, houghi wrote: Can people please NOT toppost. It makes things extremely unreadable. Take a look at one of the three links in my signature on the how and why. As it is now, the list becomes almost unreadable, unless you follow each and every thread all the time or take extra time scrolling back and forth. Also I would like the lists maintainers of the list to take a stand in this. I really would like to know what your opion is on this, even if it is "I don't care". houghi --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
