Top-posting [Was: Installing with apt-get]

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I hesitate to agree (that bottom-posting is inefficient for the reader)
only because I'm tired of being berated by the rabid
bottom posters.  On its merits, I completely agree.  I also find interspersed
posting to be reasonable only briefly.  After two or three levels it can quickly
become too difficult to read.  Either snippage takes away too much of the
context, or it just gets too tangled, or it just plain looks like everybody
rudely interrupting everyone else without adding anything really new or
useful.

Nevertheless, in moderation all three methods have their points.

They all work best if each new poster is sensitive to the context and
appearance of the result.  Like civil dialog itself, this seems to be a dying
art.

++ kevin


On 6/22/06, Steve Tripp <progressivepenguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bottom posting is by far the most inefficient way to read lists like this
> that are active and have many additions.  Bottom posters also seem to be the
> loudest when it comes to complaining, and they also seem to overlook the
> fact that their complaints dilute the technical issues actually being
> discussed.
>
> Oh well.
>
>
> On 6/21/06, Dion Le Blanc <dionleblanc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Alexander Skwar wrote:
> >
> >   Or even had the brains to realise that they often defeated their own
> > purpose. If you top post you are clearly saying,
> >
> > 1/ my post is more important than yours
> > 2/ I want to speak over you
> > 3/ Your post really doesn't matter
> >
> >
>
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