Re: [OT] top posting
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:57:04 +1100
Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au> wrote:
> [flame on]
> but we do read chronologically (in date order) and I for one hate
> having to go 3 pages down to read the answer to the previous email
> (in a threaded news reader!).
That's why you properly clip the message you're responding to into the relevant parts, and then you reply separately to those points.
> Although I do admit that if you start in the last email of a thread
> it easier to read top to bottom
The idea is that every posting, even though it is far into some thread, is to a certain extent self-contained.
> [flame off]
No reason to flame anybody.
...and down here followed lots of irrelevant, older stuff, all of which I've clipped.
--D.
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