>>>IMO top posting is better than bottom posting because it >>>saves typing or mouse drag to reach the answer.
>>[...] question is one of those religious issues that people will never >>agree on. >Perhaps it's like that (religious) in here but among some, hmm... more >advanced communities, like Linux kernel, Debian GNU/Linux, Emacs, Git >developers etc., this question never needs to be discussed. Basically >everybody trims their messages and quotations to be easily readable, and >the context of a message can be seen with a quick glance. This is not >because they just happen to have the same "religion". It's because they >have a long experience in communicating effectively in the Internet (and >other networks and bulletin boards systems before that). And something I always think but *hope* it never needs to be said, 'though unfortunately it *does*, is that if I get to a post or email that's just plain garbage, whether it has 400 lines of quote and 2 lines of reply at the bottom, or it's just lazily top-quoted despite it originating as a bottom-quoted post, or has html turned on with some garish "formatting" via indents and left-margin lines, or has some retina-searing blinding-white background... I just delete the post unread. If the sender is too lazy or rude to not go through the minimal effort to make his email/post readable, then it's simply not worth *my* effort to even read it, let alone reply. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
