I've usually already read the messages being replied to, and don't re-read them in the quoted message.
My mail client also collapses all the quoted stuff since it's displayed immediately above the new message in the previous message. Again, blame Gmail. On Dec 12, 2007 8:26 AM, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -zefram > > film showed scenes in rev... no wait, they did that one. > Imagine if a novel had the chapters printed in reverse order. Or if a > > with having to repeatedly jump backwards. > really need to be read in chronological order. The same issue arises > the newest post first, but as themes are discussed in several posts they > I have the same problem with blogs. They're almost always presented with > > the usual kind of top-posting. > bottom-to-top, and I'm sure you'll agree it's much more readable than > time you reach one. This message, for comparison, is *consistently* > know about the section boundaries, and jump backward two sections each > representations, the nuxi problem. To comprehend the whole you have to > must still be read top-to-bottom. It's like mixed-endian numeric > sequence must be read bottom-to-top, but each individual section > picks up a chain of previous top-posted quotations, is that the overall > The problem with top-posting as it is usually done, especially when it > I read top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top, as long as it's consistent. > what's really annoying about it. I don't really strongly mind whether > Actually, top-posting is usually done in an inconsistent way, and that's > > (getting the last one wrong) tend to get all three wrong. > corresponding quoted text versus putting it below. People who top-post > versus interspersing it with quotation; and putting new text above the > quoting only what's necessary; putting all of the new text in one place > orthogonal issues here: quoting the entire previous message versus > is indeed an annoying habit in its own right. There are really three > I disagree about this ordering of annoyingness, but unselective quoting > > >It's less annoying than quoting the entire message and then bottom-posting :D > comex wrote: > -- Geoffrey Spear http://www.geoffreyspear.com/
