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At 10:03 01/05/2012, William Anderson wrote:
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Thomas Mangin
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> IAABP (I Am A Bottom Poster - is this internet standard not
applied on UKNOF?
>
> Assuming you are not trying to start a flamewar (hence why I am
bottom posting), Modern clients organising mails by
discussion/thread and hiding the part of the text already present
in the previous mails in the thread make top posting easier to read
than bottom posting and interleaved comments.
I find that often the top posting clients hide (snip out) parts of
the text or earlier conversation to which the top post refers,
requiring a visit back to the original sender's email.
A. Because it breaks the logical order of conversation.
It does indeed and that is why I like interleaved replies. Maybe old
fashioned, but many of non-techy acquaintances using top posting have
commented on how easy it is to follow a conversation using
interleaved, especially when there are several matters to be
addressed in a response. I was shown the interleaved reply many years
ago by a very influential Internet person. It has stuck, for good or bad.
Q. Why is top posting bad?
See above. Ipso facto, my case rests.
No flamewar intended - just my tuppence worth.
</head above parapet> (ducking....)
Nic
