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I have never seen top posting create as many problems as bottom posting does. The arguments against top posting too much remind me of the irrational objection to ending sentences a preposition with.
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From: John Popelish To: Electronics_101@... Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 10:11 PM Subject: Re: [Electronics_101] Best way of replying AnaLog Services, Inc. wrote: > What you say is all true, but top posting makes life easier > if you are looking at hundreds of mailing list messages every day. (snip) Every one of your and my posts to this group are received by 4284 members of this list and reviewed by who knows how many more people in the future. You are more concerned by what is efficient for you than what is efficient for all of them. You don't take much effort to trim the posts you are replying so that your response makes good sense and you are not concerned with people searching your contributions and making sense of them in the future. You also do not have your email program set up to wrap lines to a reasonable length, so I had to do this wrapping for you, before I could display your words in an intelligible way before responding. These are certainly your choices to make. But don't be surprised if many of that 4284 have figured out that you are not at all interested in their problems with your message, and have kill filed you, rather than take the effort to make sense of your posts. You see poor practices involving trimming and editing and your solution is to add yet another poor practice, to allow people to read read responses without having to see those poor practices. But your solution doesn't improve communications. It makes communication worse, and a lot worse if everyone did as you do. We would have only long quoted, reverse order strings with uncontexted replys appearing at the top of a big mess. The difficulty in understanding the conversation might cut down on the number of responses, I have to admit. That would lower your daily message count, but there is an easier way for you to accomplish that. The best argument I can make is to try to set an example that would encourage others to take the effort to help the reader, rather than do what takes the least effort from me. |
