-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Rafi,
@26-Jul-2003, 13:12 -0500 (19:12 UK time) Rafi Avital [RA] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said to Peter: RA> I'm not an expert but have had some experience with Partition RA> Magic (older version) and it really isn't worth it. <moderator> Note: This moderator's interjection is a note to all readers and not just to the person being replied to, even if their post may have instigated this reply. Please don't feel singled out Rafi. Coo! Loads of top posting!!! On a off-topic post too. This makes the third moderator's interruption on the topic of top posting in one day! Okay. Stock lecture time folks. ** Stock essay about top posting. ** Top posting means that you put the cursor at the top of a reply and type everything you want to say there. Top posted replies make messages harder to read than they should be. When you are having a private conversation and you know what you're saying to an individual top posting has a certain validity (I still don't do it - I don't find it at all pleasant to read that way, but this isn't about my personal preferences). When you are in an environment where many readers and many topics are present at once, you force everyone to read your reply text (because it's at the top, it's seen first), think to themselves "What's that about then?", scroll down to read the quotes for context, think "Oh, I see... now I know what it's about, does that change anything in what I read first?", and scroll back up to read what you wrote in the light of improved context. It's much easier for the writer, yes. But email should be designed for the reader. A great example of the effect of top posting is: ___________________________________________________________________ Terrible > How does it smell? >> My dog has no nose. ������������������������������������������������������������������� This does not make easier reading at all. Any reply works better broken down conversationally: ___________________________________________________________________ > Someone makes this point.. (snipped) A reply is made with this response. >> A point made two messages back (snipped) > and this was said to make someone think Which leads to this summary. ������������������������������������������������������������������� Only contextually relevant text remains. It is easy to read and follow the conversation without having to scroll up and down or think too hard or read more than once. Also, since the text is trimmed to the bare bones to facilitate the conversation, there's no worry about excess or untrimmed quotes. </moderator> - -- Cheers -- .\\arck D Pearlstone -- List moderator TB! v1.63 Beta/11 on Windows XP 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. iQA/AwUBPyLI2TnkJKuSnc2gEQJz4wCfXv+kRfMB7WT+/a93IiiGKtaKRccAn1xX gYrgBuGuswy3m0cltBI67B3E =sUdG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
