Personally I like top-posting - it is more natural for me to read a post without scrolling down the lines looking for a break point that may or may not exist. Bottom posting is like a having a conversation and repeating everything the other person said before responding. That said it really depends on how close you have read prior postings on the thread of interest and since I am a good reader with a half decent memory I can flow through the threads and pick what I need to know
As far as I am concerned the response to a posting can be written without any of the previous posts retained. It saves a lot of redundancy but then I am from the old school when we used to use type writers and retyping snips was called quoting. The best approach seems to be to ignore what is going on today because it will surely change tomorrow. Strange how the internet seems to have its own form of etiquette and now there is texting, wonder what new and wonderful changes that will bring. My daughter tells me texting is really great especially if your spelling is bad. LOL ;-) Don't get mad - I am just horsing around - now there's a phrase that will date me real fast. 73, Ray, N0FY SKCC 3704 FH 997 _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Len Warner Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 5:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [softrock40] Re: softrock for 2m? At 8:20 am ((PDT)) Fri May 9, 2008, in Digest 2307 Bill Carver wrote: >[snip main part of reply] >-----Original message----- >From: "Terry" [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:wb4jfi%40knology.net> net ><snip> >(top post to keep message flow) >Terry > >What does "top post to keep message flow" mean? It means:- a) you don't want to know where Terry puts a cup of coffee ;-) and b) a chain of reasoning is unfamiliar to some top-posters. It''s a bit like seeing someone driving the wrong way down the freeway and deciding it's a good lead to follow. Regards, LenW -- (& because it's often followed by a complete failure to trim) A: Because it destroys the flow of the conversation Q: Why is top-posting bad?
