-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/14/08 16:07, David wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:32:53AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On 01/14/08 10:21, Ebanutiy Ebanatik Ebanatovich wrote: >>>> Sorry for offtopic but I'm wondering if the cause of avoiding of top >>>> posting is in something technical (e.g. to help forum software to >>>> create weekly digests correctly) or is it a question of etiquette? >>> Rationality, because while some cultures read left->right, and >>> others read right->left, all read top->bottom. None read bottom->top. >> [flame on] >> but we do read chronologically (in date order) and I for one hate >> having to go 3 pages down to read the answer to the previous email (in >> a threaded news reader!). >> >> Although I do admit that if you start in the last email of a thread it >> easier to read top to bottom > > I think that different date formats are employed even in different > English speaking countries. > > As far as top-posting is concerned, in order to assist the OP - two > words - 'Logical Progression'.
Sure. YYYY-MM-DD; DD-AAA-YYYY; MM/DD/YY; DD/MM/YY, etc. But no one counts down unless they know what the top number is. > Especially within a problem resolving format, such as this list, > top-posting supplies a complete, step by step history of the situation > from initial problem to final solution. > > Of course, the lazy way is just to read the top of the exchange and grab > the solution, but: this means that no level of understanding is achieved > by the reader; the reader doesn't have the opportunity to contribute to > the situation; bottom-up posting doesn't contribute to efficient > archiving; and Debian, at least from my experience, isn't in the market > of catering to laziness. > Regards, > - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate vegetables!" unknown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHi+IlS9HxQb37XmcRArY9AKDZhQ+ZIWswVcYWbfiLwNDtavkeRgCgtrc9 +hDlVGSjZvPw19bMg9EXnHg= =w2K4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
