Many times, YahooGroups messages are delayed because the summary does not include the reply which is cut off (there is only so much of the message quoted via email). When that happens, there is no way to verify what is in the post that is new. Besides, I have yet to see any email client that automatically scrolls to the bottom of a message. Even if it did, the start of your reply is above the end, and so should the messages. We aren't in China where you write left to right, and we aren't on a planet that writes letters bottom to top. If we were, bottom posting would make sense.
Top posting let's you start at the beginning of the new post rather than the old posts which you're probably already read. Joe M. Nate Duehr wrote: > Eric Lemmon wrote: > > Perhaps it's better to set your mail program to put your reply at the > > top, with all posts following in descending order. That is the Outlook > > default setting, and it works for me! > > > backwards. > and > way > that > read > to > harder > It's > > Bah. Uncivilized... > > It's called top-posting, and it's always been silly, ever since Outlook > started it. Virtually no one did it, until Outlook brought it's special > brain-dead e-mail implementation to the world. > > People don't read English bottom to top, they read top to bottom. Prior > to Outlook, the people online tended to type full sentences and knew how > to use their computers pretty well. > > If someone can't figure out how to SNIP the original message down to > ONLY the parts they're replying to, they probably shouldn't be left > unattended in public or allowed to play with sharp objects. > > Better yet, perhaps quoting the reply at all, is really the silly part. > A left over from when switching messages on a BBS to read the previous > would take a lot of time. Nowadays, just follow the thread backward for > context, maybe? > > “When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my Dictionary. The > poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences. The author > may arrange the gems effectively, but their fhape and luftre have been > given by the attrition of ages. Bring me the fineft fimile from the > whole range of imaginative writing, and I will fhow you a fingle word > which conveys a more profound, a more accurate, and a more eloquent > analogy.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. > > I'm sure someone will think I'm too "judgmental" for expecting someone > to at least TRY to learn how to use their computer, instead of > butchering the English language with it. And I'm off-topic, so I'll > shut up now. Just a pet peeve. > > Top-posting is an annoying affliction of the computer age, to chop up > our thoughts and words into useless backwards snippets. > > (Want a better rant with good references? See what I think of > PowerPoint for meetings: http://www.natetech.com/?p=248 > > The Gettysburg Address parody sums that one up real well... (the link is > there above in the article). It definitely loses it's grandeur and > beauty as a speech that saved a country -- when done via PowerPoint slides! > > Lovers of the language (even those of us who butcher it as I do), will > always bottom-post. > > Nate WY0X > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
