Agent Smith napisal(a): [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > I actually like having the new messages on the top. > When I am following a discussion I do not have to > scroll through the quoted text to find the new > content. I also don't mind having the entire message > quoted since I can easily look back on the discussion
It is like having such a conversation: Answer: Because you have to read backwards. Question: Why is it inconvenient? Answer: Replying at the top of the message. Question: What is a problem then? Answer: No. Question: Is everything OK with mailing lists? Does it make sense? For me not. I prefer reading from top to bottom, not from bottom to top. I read an answer at the top and I don't know the question! (Actually, on this mailing list, I often get the replies before the messages that are replied to, and in such case having to read the message from bottom to top to find out what's going on is really annoying.) I have to scroll down through the entire message (untrimmed! - and that's even worse than quoting at the top) to find the part somebody is referring to. E-mail, and especially a mailing list, is more like a live conversation, where question comes before the answer, rather than a formal business letter, where you attach the documents you are referring to at the end. I prefer to read this conversation like I'd be reading a dialogue in the book, and not the reverse way. Read the links I have posted previously - they will give you tons of arguments, why classical style of quoting is better. In my opinion, nobody would ever think of this "backwards" style of quoting - because it's illogical - if Microsoft didn't put the cursor at the top of the message in Outlook. Maybe they did it just accidentally, they didn't care whether the cursor is at top or at botom, and people took it for granted and started all typing there instead of going to the end of the message first... Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Spam, wirusy, spyware... masz do6f? Jest alternatywa! http://www.firefox.pl/ --- http://www.thunderbird.pl/ Szybciej. #atwiej. Bezpieczniej. Internet tak jak lubisz. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
