Top Posting....

[Rick Lim]

I agree, it follows replying to emails, at work everyone replys to the top
of the email, it saves time trying to go to the bottom to read a couple of
word response to a question after a multi page email trail.
I can't see the reasoning of having to go to the bottom of a newsgroup
posting or email that you are already following to continue reading, if you
aren't up on the posting / email and you are interested enough in the
subject then you'll put the effort into reading it all from the bottom.
Instead of wasting everyones time forcing them to scroll to the bottom and
then replying my vote is to top post.

Flame on I'll stand by my opinion!!!


-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Phil Labonte
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 6:44 AM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Top Posting....

I love top posting and here is why;

When I read from a list using GMAIL, I look at the subject, then if it
peaks my interest like this one did I will only read the first post
and then I would like to see only the responses, I do not need to look
through the same email 6 or more times to find and the replies mixed
into the quoted text.

That is my personal preference...

Flame at will..


On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:53:00 +0100, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> Angelo Machils wrote:
> > It is a little strange, that in a community where people choose their OS
> > for the choices and freedom, there are people who say 'we still want you
> > to choose my choice, if you go ahead with your own choice, we will
> > ignore your messages'. Sounds kind of childish to me..... But that is
> > just my personal observation....
> 
> Well, put it this way. This is a high-traffic list, so most people will
> have to be selective on which posts they read and respond to. Some posts
> are likely to be ignored, be that because they have poor subject lines
> ("Help!"), are poorly formatted (e.g. choice of small fonts or poor
> colour contrast in HTML mail making it difficult to read even with a
> mailer than handles HTML), or are difficult to follow because of poor
> quoting or ordering (both of which are problems with top-posting). So by
> following the conventions of the list, a question is more likely to get
> answered.
> 
> Paul.
> 
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