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Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT Top/Bottom posting] Re: Sun Weblog
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Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 09:04:19 -0400
From: Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org
To: users@libreoffice.org
On 2011-05-31 8:50 AM, Earl Melton wrote:
I don't know about [developers], but it sure wastes the hey out of
[my] time. When you've read ten or more messages with the same
subject line, you've got a fair idea what the next reply is about.
Read the poster's comment, then scroll -- if necessary -- to read
context, rather than scrolling for endless screens just to find the
latest comment. Just my two one-hundredths oif a Federal Reserve
Note's worth...
Please stop with the same old tired false premise/FUD...
*No* *one* (in their right mind) advocates *untrimmed* bottom/inline
posting, which, I *agree*, is the *only* thing that is worse than
blindly top-posting. *Properly* *trimmed*, you generally don't have to
scroll *at* *all*.
Regardless of which method you engage in, you should *always* trim your
quoted text to only the relevant portion.
This is getting to be a pretty tiresome thread, and it is obvious that
the main protagonists are never going to change their views, no matter
how right or wrong they are.
However, you've hit the nail on the head, tanstaafl. Maybe no one
*advocates* untrimmed bottom posting, but many people do it, and it is
extremely counter-productive in so many ways. Notwithstanding all your
emphases above, the fact is that *very* *few* people, particularly those
writing in non-newsgroup environments but also many many newsgroup
posters, do any trimming, let alone the 'proper trimming' to which you
refer. That is one, just one, of the reasons why most people top-post
and will continue to do so. I get so sick of being forced to page down
to see the latest text that, unless it is a subject in which I am
particularly interested, I will often delete the message unread if the
latest contribution is not visible on the first screen page.
This message is bottom-posted only because the last one was.
Lindsay Graham
Canberra, Australia
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