Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting
--- On Thu, 3/12/09, Bob Cox <debian-user@lists.bobcox.com> wrote:
> From: Bob Cox <debian-user@lists.bobcox.com>
> Subject: Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009, 12:55 PM
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 00:12:15 -0500, Kumar Appaiah
> (a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in) wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:04:29PM -0700, Ken Teague
> wrote:
> > > There's nothing more painful when reading
> e-mail than to start from the
> > > very bottom, read the message, then begin to read
> each reply upwards. It
> > > becomes really bad when some replies are more
> than a page long because
> > > you now have to scroll back down to read it, then
> scroll up to find the
> > > next reply. Weeding through top-posts makes me
> want to kick someones
> > > cat.
> >
> > There's something worse than that: A mixture of
> top and bottom posts!
> > From the level of quoting at least, one can decipher
> pure top posted
> > mails (however painful that is). But a potent
> combination of the two
> > becomes so disastrous that I just forget reading that
> thread! :-)
>
> I couldn't agree more. I have just been reading
> another thread on this
> list which has had its readability irrevocably destroyed by
> a
> top-poster. On top of this, our top-posting friend wrote
> in HTML,
> tripling the size of his worthless contribution and to cap
> it all, cc'd
> the list and replied directly to the previous contributor
> in the thread
> (not the OP, who just might have appreciated it). Worse
> than useless.
>
> --
> Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK.
It seems to me that following the established procedure on the mailing list you are seeking help from, be that top-posting, as is the established method here, or bottom-posting, as may be the established procedure elsewhere, is a small thing to do to keep everything functioning in a more orderly fashion. I see nothing wrong with that procedure being pointed out to posters who may not be aware of the prevailing method.
Why would one want to upset the very ppl you are seeking help from, and who contribute freely of their time to help others who are genuinely interested in being helped?
Just my views.....best regards to all.
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