Problem!

[C Hamel]

On Saturday 2006 February 04 14:04, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-02 at 12:50 +0200, Ari Torhamo wrote:
> > It's been about being clever too and accepting things that work better.
>
> I'll accept that when I see pure, rigorous, logical proof--untainted by
> obvious elevation of personal preference to specious "fact"--which
> demonstrates conclusively that bottom-posting "works better" than
> top-posting.  (Hint: this is not possible.)
>
> And keep in mind that I say this as a confirmed, long-term
> bottom-poster.
>
> --
> Michael T. Richter
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Well... my OP only asked a question: 
You know... the top-posters are making it pretty difficult to follow any 
thread in which they post.  Could that change, perhaps? ;-)"
...and was followed w/'Thanks.'  Anyone who can take offense at that, puzzles 
me, firstly, and though I may have lit the match, others turned it into the 
proverbial holy war.  Oh well.   Secondly, since you brought it up (and I 
already explained it but will be happy to do so, again) I will lay it out for 
you:

Someone posts, and another top posts, and this top-posting continues.  Then, 
one needs to refer to prior posts so starts at the bottom & reads that one; 
then that person scrolls up two msgs & reads the next one (reading down, of 
course); then said person has to scroll up two, once more, and read the next 
reply.  Totally illogical, conventions notwithstanding.

The prior, vs starting at the top & just continuing all the way down, reading 
the posts in order.  This is not rocket science! :-)  One convention is 
illogical, the next is logical.  As a Windows --and before that DOS, b'cause 
Gates had yet to invent Windows 0.5 or 1-- user for years I was top posting 
because everyone else did, for whatever reason.  I thought that it was hard 
to follow then, and I think so now.  Then, comes Linux and I, too, had become 
so used to top posting that it took me awhile to get into the habit of doing 
the more logical thing and bottom post.  Then, one day, when I had to read 
several posts in one msg it finally clicked:  "THIS MORE IS LOGICAL," I said 
to myself.,  The rest is history. :-)

        ...CH
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