>Hi All:
>
>If we're voting, I'm with Scott on this one.
I wasn't aware it was an election ...
>Gord
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Scott Gomez" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2004 8:28 AM
>Subject: [OM] Re: excessive quoting
>
>
>>
>> Top posting has distinct advantages. Chronology is most recent to least
>> recent, which certainly preserves threading, just in the opposite order
>> from bottom posting. It also saves a bunch of needless scrolling in
>> longer threads just to read what's been most recently added.
Top posting:
-- destroys the quoting and threading capabilities of all email programs;
-- gives total prominence to the last comment;
-- destroys the ability to follow the normal chain of conversation,
which is he-said-she-said;
-- destroys the ability to use, and all email programs' ability to
display, proper signatures under one's answer (proper meaning those
which separate the body and sig parts of a message, and put the last
poster's sig directly below their message; and
-- is bad netiquette as defined by the Internet community for over 30
years now.
And it's as lazy as not trimming.
The fact that it's a business practice which follows the old means of
filing papers in file folders, and is also facilitated by
MickeySnake's egregious email software, and is common to people from
services like AOL, which have NO standards, only provides more good
reasons to avoid it.
Bottom posting, combined with judicious snipping, is a joy to behold,
especially in digests.
Cheers from the Antipodes,
Michael Kopp
Wellington, New Zealand
>>
>> ---
>> Scott Gomez
>> unrepentant
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Kopp [mailto:mkopp@xxxxxxxxxx]
>> Subject: [OM] Re: excessive quoting
>>
>> When people stop top-posting and get their threading right, then this
>> request will make sense and I will worry about it -- and the digest
>> will work right and be burstable into individual messages for people
>> who want to see them that way.
>>
>> Michael Kopp
>> Wellington, New Zealand
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