Harold Fuchs wrote:
[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.
NO.....I'm NOT "a mere stripling youth," but you already know that. ;)
For many
years, top posting has been considered "rude," and it still is by many.
Fred
--
Linux is an old Latin word meaning, "I don't have
to support your Windows anymore."
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