On 2/9/2019 10:26 AM, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2019-02-09 07:46, L A Walsh wrote: > >> That's why it is very surprising to see computer people treat >> 'email' as a "log" instead of like a chat w/history... >> > > Logs can be displayed most recent first, - > ---- usually not without a special reader. Especially not when they are on paper.
Even email - if printed out...if they only top posted, only would need to print first page or so of text, but otherwise, need to print 50+pages (like the support incident from hell).... > > I expect bottom posting and trimming for subscriber or volunteer groups like > this, to respect the time and effort of those doing the work, and reduce the > bandwidth distributed across the internet (or U But if they don't trim, you have to download all the old stuff before you can read the new stuff. Say you are reading over a 1200 baud serial line and have to page through 50K of previous text... If they don't trim, top posting would be more efficient for your line usage. > senet if gatewayed via NNTP - > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
