John Carline wrote: > Personally, I don't care where an individual posts. But, it would make > my reading/following of threads much easier if I didn't have to > scroll down to the bottom of post after post in a long string just to > read the one line added to the 200 I've already read.
And that's why "trimming" is also a recommended practice. No need to quote 200 lines of irrelevant material; trim out the unnecessary stuff. This is also a consideration towards those who have to pay for their internet access per byte. Why are you forcing them to spend their money on six copies of the same 7-line signature and 17-line "disclaimer" (and don't even get me started on disclaimers) just to read a one-line reply to a one-line question? Regarding top-posting, that's fine in some situations, but in a situation like an email list, it's not just you and one or two others reading the material, and making sense of it because all of you can remember the context. It may be that in six months someone is trying to find an answer in the archives, and top-posted messages turn into spaghetti code. Remember how all your programming classes and peers reiterated over and over that spaghetti code is a bad thing? Same thing in email threads, particularly in archives. Top-posting, and lack of trimming, often results in an ugly mess. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
