Hi Michael, On Monday 02 April 2012 14:00:15 Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: > Nearly everyone seems to top post in this list. May I ask you not > too? It means that it is pointless to look through posts in a > terminal window, impossible to quickly go though a list of messages, > because what they are all about is out of sight and the reply you are > seeing is meaningless without knowing that. You have to carry out an > investigation, often paging through and reading a lot that shouldn't > be there, just to see if the message is worth reading anyway. > > Please reply to specifics. Answer each paragraph immediately after > quoting the paragraph, rather that writing something that is supposed > to apply to an entire message or group of messages that can be found > at the end of yours.
good catch, but I doubt that your request will help much. Anyway I can only support this: no TOFU. Cheers, Gerhard -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
