[LINK] Top posting is evil

[Craig Sanders]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:08:11PM +1100, Ivan Trundle wrote:
> Couldn't agree more with Eleanor! Get a grip, people... There are  
> times when top-posting makes far more sense - like now.

no, not like now.

you've destroyed the context of your reply.  if i, or someone else, replied to
your message and also top-posted then it would be an annoying pain to have to
read all the replies BEFORE the quotes before you found out what was being
discussed.

it gets particularly annoying when some top-post (perhaps deliberately
to "prove" some stupid "point"), and others do bottom-posting or
interleaved quoting. that makes it impossible to even see the sequence
of the discussion, let alone follow it.

as someone else said, a quick response to a single question in PRIVATE mail
is about the only time top-posting ever makes sense (and even then, it's not
hard or time-consuming to quote properly AND delete all the excess quoted
material).  it NEVER makes sense on a mailing list.


craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>           (part time cyborg)