On 05/02/2014, Peter West <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/02/2014 5:31 am, Robert Holtzman wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 01:37:52PM +0000, Tom Davies wrote: >>> >>> Bottom posting requires a ton of extra work such as trimming and such >>> which office workers really do not have time for. > > Trimming is a sensible thing to do, whichever way you post. It's work > for the poster, not the reader, and top-posting is a benefit for the > reader, not (primarily) the poster. > ..... >> >> I really hope you don't mean that trimming is a waste of time. Ever see >> a reply to a digest message that quoted the whole digest. What fun. > > But doesn't trimming undermine the argument? How can the discussion be > read sequentially when bits of it have been deleted? >
Not really. The un-deniable fact: the English language convention is to read left-to-right, top-to-bottom. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
