Re: Evolution

Just to add my 2 cents worth:

As I come from a corporate background I don't care at all, when
reading mail from a list, if replies come top-wise or bottom-wise.

I don't mind at all about scrolling to the bottom either, since 90% of
the time a simple CTRL-END does the trick.

But I'm also sure this top-or-bottom thing is a religious issue for
many, so I [mostly] try to follow whatever house rules when posting
myself.

I think that a mailing list - more so if it is a high-traffic one like
this - is a fine opportunity for accomodating different points of view
and different levels of general tolerance, so either top or bottom
posting are equally welcome.

Cheers

Thiers

On 5/27/06, ruscook <ruscook_oz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm with you David. I think there are times when both top posting and
bottom posting are appropriate. A lot of corporate emails is one
instance, short email conversations another. Either way both have limits
and like you say, if everytime I select a message I have to scroll a
huge number of lines, or on a mailing list wade through a number of
screens (pages), then I think bottom posting has also hit its limits :-)

Judicious editing of posts (which we don't have time for in a lot of
cases I know) can mean that the advantages of one method to the other
can be minimal in a lot of cases. But it's a religious debate based on
logic and opinion so I can't see there being any "win/win" out of it.

Russell

Dave Scott wrote:
> Well, looks like I'm in the minority here, but if I do run across a
> post that's in chronological order top to bottom, and if the last
> answer is off the screen, most likely I'll just move on to the next
> message rather than take the time to scroll.
> Dave
>
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On Friday 26 May 2006 16:58, Me - Atlantic wrote:
>>
>>>>> Actually, no. It's because I have so many clients that respond
>>>>> to corporate emails that way, and, when I "bottom-post", they
>>>>> ask me why the emails are replied to "backwards"...
>>>>>
>>>> ye gods I hate that.
>>>> I used to try and explain why top posting is evil
>>>> and give example conversations. Few of them got it so I gave up.
>>>>
>>> I've decided to swim upstream. I'm going to simply start replying
>>> to emails again the way I used to, and when people ask why emails
>>> are "backwards", I'll tell them that my new email client (I'm the
>>> only one running Linux) doesn't allow it, so live with it. (Being a
>>> new partner affords me some luxury). If they want to "reverse"
>>> everything, let them. I'm tired of moving everything around. Who
>>> knows? Maybe I'll get some of the underlings to convert to Ubuntu!
>>>
>>
>> My hero :-)
>>
>> Maybe try looking at them with a completely confused stumped look on
>> your face and innocently ask "Why do you put the answer before the
>> question? In a spoken conversation it goes the other way round."
>>
>>
>
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