Ray Davidson wrote on 4/11/2015 3:54 PM:
Daniel wrote:
1 *Top Posting* where you position your text at the very top of the
reply ... generally useful in a one-on-one situation, i.e. in an e-mail.
2 *Bottom Posting* where you add your contributions after all that has
gone before .... useful, IMHO, where there might be several replies to
your post before you read the replies, i.e. in a newsgroup!
3. *Interspersed* where you add your comments after each paragraph or
after each question.
Top, bottom and interspersed are for replies to a previous post. If
that previous post is a simple question or statement, and you top post,
your reply, the original question and your reply will probably both be
visible on the page. But, someone else reading your reply will see the
answer before the question. Where it gets difficult to read is where
the original post is lengthy, and you left it all in your reply, and you
top posted to one element of the original post. In that case, the
reader reads your answer and than must go looking for the question you
are replying to.
My suggestion is to recognize that you are trying to carry on a
conversation, and format your reply accordingly. After you click reply,
the first thing to do is eliminate everything that you are not going to
reply to. This is called trimming.
Then format what is left of the original post into a form where you can
reply to the individual elements as if you were carrying on a
conversation, which you are. Edit > Rewrap helps here.
Then insert your replies so that your post will read question, answer,
question, answer,,,.
But that's just my opinion.
Ray
The irritation comes in when people in a group do not follow what has
become accepted as convention for that group. In the Mozilla groups it
has long been convention to intersperse and bottom post. All these top
posts lately are driving me crazy because my habit is to click the space
bar to go to the next unread post and hit END to jump to (what I think
should be) the reply. Horribly annoying for newbies to be doing this.
--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
Why are builders afraid to have a 13th floor but book publishers aren't
afraid to have Chapter 11?
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