TopPosting !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ken Adams]

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 13:58 +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:28:14 -0400
> "Danyelle Gragsone" <ladynikon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > If you take 2 secs to look at the message you should be able to follow
> > a conversation.  It's like toilet seat up.. toilet seat down.. I don't
> > understand the problem.
> 
> Much of the problem is that there is no standard - there are a lot of people top posting and a lot of people bottom posting. This makes for an odd vibrating sensation in the scrollwheel finger when reading deeply-quoted discussions.
> If we are going to agree on a standard, it makes sense (to myself at least) to go with the same one as we use in spoken word - that is where replies follow that which they are replying to.
> 
> And I'll echo the previous response and point out that there's little point in replying unless you give some hint as to what you are replying to.
> 
> -- 
> Avi Greenbury :) 
> 

This is a VERY old disscusion.

The last time I put mu point of view to thsi I said what I said then

No matter how you post, Top, Bottom or Blank sheet, you always reply to
a question after it has been asked. The question has already been asked.
I have no problem reading previous messages and if I am interested in a
particular thread, to make sense of everything, I always read all post
in date/time order.

I had this same problem about Top/Bottom posting when I founded the
Hampshire Linux Users Group back in the 1990s. There was no answer that
pleased everyone then, as I am willing to bet, there will be no answer
now.

Rgds Ken
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