OT: RE: Top posting and "no subject" messages.

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On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:49:25 -0600
"Nix, Robert P." <Nix.Robert at mayo.edu> wrote:

> Just to take the other viewpoint, I prefer to have the
> newest material at the top of the post. If I've been
> following a "conversation", I don't want to have to relive
> the whole thing just to get to the next piece of
> information. I want the newest, most relavant information
> at the top. If that's "top posting" (I've never heard the
> term before now), then I'm all for it. If I get 10 messages
> in my in-box on the same subject, I really don't want to
> have to look through the first one ten times. I'd rather
> see the newest stuff at the top of each. Add to that the
> fact that the e-mail software that I use (both in Linux and
> Windows) places me above the quote at the start, and you
> have the makings of your typical "top poster". I refuse to
> take the time to cut the signature created by the client
> and move it to the bottom. Sorry; just not happening.

...[snip]...

Hmm... is it just me? Why does it feel like there's lots of
"I"'s up there? I thought the ML is for "us"? ;)

Anyway, this

<quote_from_the_first_post_on_this_thread>
What happens if, sometime in the future you decide to to
a google search for your past postings, or find something
that you had posted a few years ago?
</quote_from_the_first_post_on_this_thread>

... should at least give people second thoughts when "top
posting".

I wonder if this is one the reasons people don't like to
STA--kinda hard to read from bottom to top, don't you think?
(That's a rhetorical question...)

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