Le 14/12/2015 13:00, Arnt Gulbrandsen a écrit :
Didier Kryn writes:
Le 13/12/2015 19:26, Arnt Gulbrandsen a écrit :
2) that people generally remember what a thread is about when based
on the subject
Arnt, let's be consistent. You assume the author doesn't expect
the reader to need the citation. This means that the citation is left
only because the author is too lazzy to cut it.
Not at all. And please don't use "you" in that manner; as you can see
I quote like an old unix fart (at least when I'm using a device with a
keyboard).
In this sentence, I was meaning 'you' as general, not personal. I'm
not a native English speaker and, in French, we commonly use 'you' for
'one'. I thought it was the same in English, sorry.
The necessary assumption is that the reader is LIKELY to remember the
context from the subject field. Or put differently, top-posting
optimises for the case where the reader SELDOM needs to read the
quoted matter, but not NEVER.
The fact is that, if there is more than one level of citation, the
whole citation is unreadable. Or it can be read with a lot of effort.
Actually it takes more effort to *every* reader to read it than it would
take to the *single* writer to bottom-post. If a writer want her/his
mail to be read by many, it is up to her/him to make the effort to
format it in a reader-friendly format; and the reader-friendly format is
bottom-post, as has been acknowledged by the netiquette, and has been
well explained by Simon Hobson.
Le 14/12/2015 12:29, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI a écrit :
In other words: TRIM YOUR POSTS? YOU LAZY BUGGERS !
I didn't mean to say it with such a tone of rudeness (maybe I
failed), but that's exactly the idea :-)
Didier
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