TopPosting !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Neil Cherry]

Avi Greenbury wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:28:14 -0400
> "Danyelle Gragsone" <ladynikon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> If you take 2 secs to look at the message you should be able to follow

also don't invest much effort in the conversation either. The more complex

>> a conversation.  It's like toilet seat up.. toilet seat down.. I don't

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>> understand the problem.

the conversion becomes the more messed up it becomes when multi-people
respond.

I hope you see a problem now.

For those that are confused, everything is out of order and partly
backwards. I hope I've made my point.

> Much of the problem is that there is no standard - there are a lot of
 > people top posting and a lot of people bottom posting. This makes for
> an odd vibrating sensation in the scrollwheel finger when reading
 > deeply-quoted discussions.
 >
 > If we are going to agree on a standard, it makes sense (to myself
 > at least) to go with the same one as we use in spoken word -
> that is where replies follow that which they are replying to.
>
> And I'll echo the previous response and point out that there's
 > little point in replying unless you give some hint as to what
 > you are replying to.

There are no standards when a Microsoft mentality is involved. The
Usenet has had this unwritten standard since before 1985 (when I
first remember accessing the newsgroups. I'm pretty sure it was
use on many BBS's before that. It's really become a problem since
AOL and Microsoft made things easy without knowledge.

BTW, here's the RFC on the subject:

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html

A sig which nicely points out the problem:

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

And posting style from the Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style

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