On Friday 11 Sep 2009 9:18:21 pm Eugen Leitl wrote: > doing this, because the majority is always right, right? > won't complain for sure when you see your colleagues > cut somebody open with my fingernails dirty. And you > sensible reasons why I should scrub down, so the next time I'm going to > down before going into your OP? I don't see any valid > the above and below. I mean, why do you bother scrubbing > like you did here made it look as if you wrote both > Because top posting and lack of proper citation just
:D Thanks for giving me the opportunity to say what I was going to say anyway even if the opportunity did not present itself. Top posting is not poor etiquette. Farting loudly in public or picking your nose and wiping snot on the tablecloth is poor etiquette. The problem with top posting is lack of clarity. This is a list (like many others) where there are multiple parallel conversations. Having to scroll down a page to figure out what was said earlier in order to invite the response you see at the top of the page leads to this lack of clarity - often for a third person who has not directly been taking part in a particular exchange. Of course most countries don't legislate against farting in public or wiping snot on the table cloth. But other than the idiocy of Blackberries that form less than 0.001 percent of email sending machines leading to arrogant laziness in top posting - it is such a pain to read top posted emails that there can be almost no excuse for not being able to avoid top posting. Just my view.
