I used to rail against top posting, but since losing my sight I now prefer it. It saves wading through vast amounts of speech to get to the good bits.
BTW, vm + emacspeak + emacs is an excellent combination for the blind. PS. +1 for The Thick of it. Itts really good to listen to and the swearing is brilliant. James Freer writes: > Thanks for the link > > On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Uday Reddy wrote: > > > The BBC has made a brilliant series called the "The Thick of It", a > > political satire dealing with British politics and how the politicians > > interact with the media. > > Not sure i'd describe it as a brilliant series.... very poor compared with > Yes > Minister (years ago now) which was a bit more convincing. All the swearing > and > sexual connotations really spoil what could be quite entertaining. > > > has a brilliant segment dealing with how the stupid email reply conventions > > used by Outlook-users (and now Thunderbird-users) can get people into > > trouble by exposing information that should have been private. You will > > enjoy watching it. > > > > I also know instances at work where this kind of thing has gotten people > > into serious trouble. Somebody should make a law prohibiting the so-called > > "top-posting style" of replies. But, the public doesn't yet know that all > > this happens just because of the idiocy of the tech people. > > Trouble is with 'Top Posting' is that i believe it was inherited from > corporate Intranet. Emails would be cut off after so many lines > automatically. > The first internet email providers copied it. Daft with yahoo groups where > one > can have a thread which gets loads of replies... and gets bigger and bigger > until someone chops off the bottom at some stage. Gmail UI doesn't help the > user > as it hides the rest of the previous replies. Thing is folk are lazy... it's > easier to top post and forget the rest. Blackberry phones and others have > followed suite. CVs - usual to put previous jobs in reverse chronological > order. > > I agree that bottom posting is better and chronological order is better. > [although with many replies the indent gets bigger with each reply so longer > threads have to be chopped top and bottom]. Most linux groups/lists prefer > it > apart from one i've found - reason being that top posts allows the > moderators to > review posts quicker than bottom posting. As much as i'd like to see bottom > posting established as the norm... don't think it'll ever happen. Apart from > linux group emails... i have not received ONE that has been bottom posted. > Every > time i've replied bottom posting (non linux groups) i've received a reply > top > posted - i've tried to 'rescue the world'.... it's a losing battle! > > Now i just top post apart from linux groups and that's how it'll be - i > can't > see how folk are going to be persuaded otherwise [human's lazy by nature]. > > james -- Les Smithson
