Re: Top posting
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 18:00:53 -0700, Tony Godshall <togo@of.net> said:
> ...
>> There isn't a problem with context because I can remember that from
>> one post to the next. ...
> Which is fine if you are reading a thread fresh, but if you are
> reading a number of lists, and leave and come back, you need a bit of
> context.
Even if you are reading a thread fresh, trying to remember what a post
said doesn't work too well for people without threaded mail readers,
since a reply may be separated from the original message. And even for
people with threaded mail readers, it doesn't work too well with long
threads with many replies -- if you finish reading this message, and
then read my reply to Hal's reply to the original message, you would
have a hard time remembering Hal's message that I was replying to, since
you would have read that message 10 messages ago.
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