Roman wrote:
Hi,
I've seen many times people asking/forcing not to top-post to the
list... So here I've got a question.. Why ?
It's a mailing list, not just a conversation between two people.
When you ask multiple questions different people may answer different
parts, which may spawn sub threads.
Reading what may become a large conversation with multiple people and
sub threads with everyone top posting (and not snipping) is just a total
pain, whereas reading with something that does threads where everyone
doesn't top post and snips is much easier.
Most of programs, including gmail app and gmail web come with top
posting by default and this is the way all people are used to read
mail.
I would argue that many people who use mailing lists are not used to
reading mail "this way" and actually hate it ....
Why the hell one should scroll down to see the last post if it is
very ok to see the last post on the top of incming e-mail.
Because a lot of times it's not "very ok" to understand what's going on
by seeing the last post - you end up having to try and read all the
preceding bits backwards. To repeat this is a public list, I may want to
read a thread with a hundred posts in it.
Where such attitude/culture comes from? Anyone to explain?
It's the same on usenet (for those of us that still use it) - also if I
post in a forum thread I don't end up "on top", do you think forums
should sort all posts backwards?
It also allows the way I split your questions to happen sanely.
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