I have no idea what this is about. Did you send to wrong address?
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From: "Twayne" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 11:21 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [users] Re: Top posting should be allowed
In news:[email protected],
Linda L. Hull <[email protected]> typed:
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From: "Keith R Bainbridge" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 2:41:36 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
Eastern
Subject: [users] Top posting should be allowed
Good afternoon all, particularly the moderators
I have been criticised a few times for top posting on this list. I
haven't participated much since the last critic.
I started work in 1963. I was told that I just missed out using nibs
that you dip into an ink well.
My first recollections of keeping records were handwritten notes on
plain paper. I progressed to typing and then computerised records.
Back to the paper - we wrote down the page (of course). However the
pages were filed latest on top. The idea being that when I opened a
file I wanted to see the most recent notes to remind me what had
happened recently. When I needed to know more history I opened the
older pages.
When I moved to computerised record keeping this principle has proven
better than the concept of scrolling to the bottom of the 'page' to
see what happened in my last discussion. I am not alone in this
thinking. Some data managers built specially for my work follow this
principle.
Which leads me to why some dislike top posting. If I am following a
long thread the last thing I want to do is page down over the
information I have read before. I want to simply read the new bit
that some kind person has added. (If I need a reminder of what has
gone before, I simply scroll. But if I am interested in the thread
this rarely happens.) If a thread becomes complex, answers should be
inserted where they are relevant.
Surely if I thank somebody for their help, they are entitled to see
my thanks quickly.
I suspect this will start a flame or two, but I am passionate about
this.
Comments please.
Keith Bainbridge
PO Box 324
BELMONT Vic 3216
+61 (0)408 522 706
[email protected]
I agree. I don't like bottom posting, for the reasons mentioned
above, but you had to read all that again, to see my thoughts.
chalcedony
Linda
No: for a proper post, it takes only two keys: CTRL and End.
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