[time-nuts] Posting style Was: looking for gooddescription/generalized model for time adjustments

[Chuck Harris]

Golly,

Top posting has been used since the very first email programs
were written... I was there.

Back in the day, people were using 110 and 300 baud connections,
and it was a real pain to have to download several pages of quoted
message only to see "me to" at the bottom.

Initially, this argument seemed to be a US vs Europe thing, and then
when the first non academic and government users got added to the
internet, the battle lines were drawn big time.

You don't expect the foot notes of a book to come before the text,
do you?

-Chuck Harris

Mike S wrote:
> At 07:55 PM 7/29/2009, WB6BNQ wrote...
> 
>> What, exactly, is the problem with top posting ?
> 
> Nothing, if you read books starting with the last chapter, working forward.
> 
> Top posters are a result of the lame default of many MUAs, including MS 
> Outlook, which place the insertion point for a reply at the top. Other 
> than the illogical flow, most top-posters are lazy (they just hit reply 
> and start typing), and leave the entire quoted content in place, in most 
> cases (I'd bet), not even realizing the full content of their email 
> below their reply. Five levels of replies are not needed for context, 
> especially on an email reflector, where all messages go to all 
> participants.
> 
> By bottom posting (or better yet, inline), one is forced to go through 
> the text one is including for context, which encourages trimming it to a 
> reasonable amount.
> 
> 
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