Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

[Phil Dyer <phil@dyermaker.org>]

I agree with that point exactly.

PS: 2 points for anybody that can figure out which point, or even which
poster I'm agreeing with.

(I really did try to stay out of this...)

phil

Mark said:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
>>> On Thursday June 9 2005 5:10 pm, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>>>
>>>>I completely agree.  Whoever  (the attribution is not clear to me)
>>>>wrote that crap about top posters vs bottom posters is an arrogant
>>>>idiot.  Processing information in reverse order  is much more
>>>>efficient
>>>
>>>
>>> Do you drive in reverse on the freeway, too?  After all, doing it
>>> backwards is more efficient.
> 
> Wait a minute, When you read a book. You start on page one and read
> right to the back of the book (Or bottom of the book) when you
> finish. Right?
> 
> Same (should) go for emails, you start at the top with reading, and
> end up at the bottom where youre email answer begins.
> 
> Is that not the best way of making it easier for other people to
> understand your email?
> 
> Still, bottom posters may be fighting a lost battle. In all the
> companies i've worked for so far, there has not been a single
> company with a "bottom" post policy of any kind.
> 
> These companies are usually the "exchange server" kind...
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
> p.s.
> Sorry Paul, for replying to you alone...