On 05/08/2008 23:34, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Ramzi El Halabi wrote:
I am facing the same problem John is facing, and I agree totally with
what he is saying
Regards,
Ramzi Al Halaby
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From: John Fistere [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August
02, 2008 8:47 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [users] Adding Comments: best practice
When I am reading a thread in this forum, I sort by Subject: and read
all the new messages in a thread at one time. I find it time consuming
to scroll to the bottom of each message, past what I just read, to get
to the new comment. Wouldn't it make more sense to add the new message
at the top, so you see it immediately? If you have lost track of a
[snip]
No, it doesn't. We all read from left to right and from top to bottom.
This argument
has been "around the horn" more than once. Many of us "old timers" simply
won't read top posted mail. I did this one, but normally........NADA!
Fred
You are obviously a mere stripling youth ;-) In the days of print-only
e-mail (no screens) at 10 characters per second (late 1970's when I got
my first e-mail account), top posting was mandatory so that, if you had
been paying attention to the conversation, as polite people did, you
could hit the "break" or "interrupt" key to stop the rest of the message
being printed in order to save time and paper. Bottom posting is *new*
and is only practical on screens. The facility existed back then to
bottom post but people who did it tended to get lynched. It's like
conducting a telephone call in which you repeat the entire previous
conversation before adding your new comment.
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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