On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 07:53:30PM +0200, Francisco Olarte wrote:
... properly scanning a top posted one takes much longer.
Not here.
I find top-posting moderately offensive, like saying "I am not going to waste time
to make your reading experience better".
Not here either.
Top-posting has been the predominantly common practice in the business &
government world for decades, & it is easy to adapt to. Just like HTML
eMail (within reason) & more than 80 columns on a line. Somehow,
millions of ordinary people are able to adapt to this, on very popular
network eMail providers, like Google groups & groups.io, as well as
their work environment.
I suppose it comes from the practice in those environs when paper memos
were the norm, & if you needed to attach the contents of other paper
memos to your own for context, you stapled them to the BACK of your own.
Of course, wherever (top/bottom) one posts, trimming is important, but
it's far less important with top-posting. You usually don't have to
scroll down to get the immediate context, & if you do, you have less far
to scroll.
I wonder about the tolerance of the world we live in. Somehow, I can
deal with top-posting, bottom-posting, middle-posting, HTML eMail,
straight-text eMails, 80-column eMails, variable-width eMails,
occasional ALL CAPS eMails, & stupid multi-line signatures, all without
getting my tail in a knot over it.
But then, I was VERY successful in my software development career,
consulting at about 30 companies (now retired). Maybe working with
others without conflict on silly issues, had something to do with it.
This message would normally have been top-posted, but was bottom-posted
to avoid offending or irritating people here. Seriously.
ps: The people on this list have been very helpful, despite the above.
