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Seconded. Although I've succumbed to bottom posting on occasion
when following the convention of the ongoing thread.<br>
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On 01/14/2011 07:42 PM, Don Kelly wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Bruce et al…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I’m posting a
new thread with the “Top Posting”
subject so I won’t draw complaints about “hijacking” the
4-port thread.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Top Posting
refers to the practice of sending a message with
a reply at the top and including the entire thread below
the reply. I prefer
this. If I’m actively following a thread, the most-recent
information
appears at the top of the message I receive. If I’ve
missed part of the
thread, I need to look only at the most recent message and
scroll down a bit to
see what’s been happening.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Bottom
Posting requires me to scroll through all of the
history before I see the newest addition.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">While
scrolling down, I may see something new and realize
that the sender has interleaved responses, addressing
multiple points with
individual responses.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">It’s been a
while, but when I researched “Top
Posting” I found this Wikipedia description:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">“</span></font>Top-posting
is a natural consequence of
the behavior of the "reply" function in many current e-mail
readers,
such as <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Outlook"
title="Microsoft Outlook">Microsoft Outlook</a>, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail" title="Gmail">Gmail</a>,
and others. By
default, these programs insert into the reply message a copy
of the original
message (without headers and often without any extra
indentation or quotation
markers), and position the editing <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursor_%28computers%29"
title="Cursor (computers)">cursor</a> above it. Moreover, a
bug present on most
flavours of Microsoft Outlook caused the quotation markers to
be lost when
replying in plain text to a message that was originally sent
in HTML/RTF. In
addition, users of <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handheld_device"
title="Handheld device">mobile devices</a>, like <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry"
title="BlackBerry">BlackBerries</a>,
are encouraged to use top-posting, because the devices only
download the
beginning of a message for viewing. The rest of the message is
only retrieved
when needed, which takes additional download time. Putting the
relevant content
at the beginning of the message requires less bandwidth, less
time, and less
scrolling for the Blackberry user.<sup id="cite_ref-3"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#cite_note-3">[4]</a><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#cite_note-4">[5]</a><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#cite_note-5">[6]</a></sup>
For
these and possibly other reasons, many users seem to accept
top-posting as the
"standard" reply style.”<font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial;" lang="EN">…and an </span></font><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial;">explanation of why people complain
about it:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:
12pt;">“Objections
to top-posting on newsgroups, as a rule, seem to come from
persons who first
went online in the earlier days of <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet"
title="Usenet">Usenet</a>, and in communities that date
to Usenet's early days.
Until the mid-90s, top-posting was unknown and interleaved
posting an obvious
standard that all net.newcomers had to learn. Among the
most vehement
communities are those in the Usenet <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comp.*_hierarchy"
title="Comp.* hierarchy"><i><span style="font-style:
italic;">comp.lang</span></i> hierarchy</a>,
especially
comp.lang.c and comp.lang.c++. Top-posting is more
tolerated on the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt.*_hierarchy"
title="Alt.* hierarchy"><i><span style="font-style:
italic;">alt</span></i> hierarchy</a>. Newer online
participants, especially those with limited experience of
Usenet, tend to be
less sensitive to arguments about posting style.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial;">When
I post (which is rarely, as I have little to offer the
list), I top post and
explain that it’s my preference and I don’t know how to do
it
effectively otherwise. This gives everyone fair warning to
delete my posts
before reading them.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial;" lang="EN">--Don</span></font><span
lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Arial;" lang="EN">Don Kelly</span></font><span
lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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