On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 09:44:39 +0200 "Per Jessen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The internet community is pretty much agreed that top-posting is a Bad > Thing(R).
Please! I agree that if one message provides responses to multiple items, the most effective organization is: quote for the first item, then comment for the first item; then quote for the second item, then comment for the second item; etc. But very many messages have only a SINGLE block of new text. Non-top-posting forces the reader to SCROLL DOWN to reach the (new) text that is contributed by a message. There are many in the internet community who consider scrolling down to be wasted time and effort. Back when internet procedures were being introduced, including text from previous messages was the easiest way to provide context continuity. But these days there exist mail handling applications which organize messages by thread. If need be, I can with a single keystroke access the (whole) message being responded to -- that's if I don't already remember what it said from when I first saw it. This is borne out in mailing lists run for type-1 personalities. Almost without exception, messages are top-posted. And with the right mail handling application, conversations in these lists are easy to follow -- just go from message to message in the thread. With top-posting, what each message contributes can be seen IMMEDIATELY, without having to scroll down over previously-seen text. To me, non-top-posted material in the information stream merely acts to slow down my reading. mikus _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
