Saluton Shawn :) Shawn H. Corey <[email protected]> dixit: > Gene Kwiecinski wrote: >> nothing but quoted text where I'd have to scroll down 3 screens' >> worth just to see the entire replied-to message with nothing but an >> added "Thanks, that worked!" at the very end, etc., I just plain skip >> to the next email w/o even looking further. > > You're talking about people who don't prune the quotes. This is one > reason people prefer top-posting; they're too lazy to cut out > everything but what they're replying to. :)
People who don't prune the quotes is annoying, certainly, because they force you to read sometimes hundreds of lines to get to the real answer, but at least they force you to read in the proper order, top to bottom, so in the worst case it's a matter of scrolling down. OK, it's far from perfect but at least the reading order is preserved. Top-posters usually don't prune quotes either, and they force you to switch reading order, which is worse. I prefer proper quoting were possible, with the reply interleaved with the quoted text. That's the way I learnt and even though it takes a bit more of time (not in my case as most of the job is done by Vim) it is worth the effort: it preserves reading order and (ideally) only the material that makes sense is quoted. This said, I can tolerate certain "full-quote" messages as long as they are bottom posted and the reply is worth the pain, but I don't read top-posted messages, specially if they have been quoted themselves because then reading order is not top-to-bottom, it is just chaos. -- Raúl "DervishD" Núñez de Arenas Coronado Linux Registered User 88736 | http://www.dervishd.net It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
