The rules should be made to make the reading process easier for the readers and the top posting versus bottom posting has nothing to do with the trimming of the messages. It is much easier to trim a message when top posting, just as I explained you.
Easier for reading? Yes, you're right. Do you read a book from the bottom of the page up? Trimming a message is easier if you top post? That's pretty weak. Follow a top posted thread, you'll see that most top posters just leave everything in there, whereas bottom posters tend to trim the message.
I have *never* seen any site dealing with mailing lists/newsgroups that suggested top posting over bottom posting. -- Keep searching. :-)
You're the one making the claim, please point out your sources.
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And if we don't, it's up to us to scroll thru the mess of top and bottom posted replies so that we can figure out what's going on, just to help someone? ---
Yes, if you are not lazy. :-)
Ahhh, so you not only want help from a mailing list, but you want those helping you to do the work of reading backwards emails. And if we, the helpers, don't want to do that, we're the lazy ones?
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Everyone on this list who falls into this category, raise your hand. I'm sorry if you have a disability and all, but you're suggesting that the good of the one outweighs the good of the many. --
Do you think that I am the only one on this list that prefer top posting? I think the way people like to post on a mailing list depends on how they were used to post and that way tend to be consider the best by them.
My response there wasn't asking everone who prefers top posting; my response was to a 'pro' for top posting was to help those with disabilities.
And that way depends on more things, like the email client used, and that email client depend on the operating system used, and so on. And I have seen that many people that use Unix use to like bottom posting and I don't know why... who knows, maybe the Unix email clients automaticly put the cursor at the bottom of the original message...
Check the headers of this email. I'm using a Windows box right now, and my cursor was automatically at the end when I clicked reply. Again, it's laziness if one doesn't want to configure their client to put the cursor at the end, or to manually move the cursor.
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