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On Sat, 03 Aug 2002, at 23:13:23 [GMT -0400], ETM wrote:
E> Ahh. Then that really is the problem. Different
E> countries, different views or top and bottom posting.
E> Okay, I will stop posting here and continue to read (skipping the
E> colorized portions of the replies <laughter>).
No the problem is that with top posted threads it is very difficult to
enter into a discussion that has already started. One must go to the
bottom and scroll up to the start of the last section to read it, then
scroll up to the section before that, then the one before that. The
parts of the message are ordered backwards from the top. In addition,
top posting clients such as Lookout Distress ignore the "-- " sig
delimiter convention and leave way too much extraneous text in the
e-mail or USENet post.
We are not speaking of national styles, but common sense and
experience with this form of communication.
In short, top posting and over quoting are as much an abomination as
HTML or rich text formatting in a plain text medium.
Mike Yetto
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