[linux-audio-user] OT: Top vs bottom Posting (was Quicktoots release number 15)

[james at dis-dot-dat.net]

On Fri, 01 Apr, 2005 at 11:59PM +1000, Mark Constable spake thus:
> On Friday 01 April 2005 23:44, Dave Phillips wrote:
> > I routinely top-post in compliance with the wishes of blind members of 
> > this and other lists. They use tts readers for their mail and do not 
> > wish to re-read the original post.
> 
> Seeing it's still April 1 here...
> 
> Very good point but that assumes they are following a thread
> and understand the context of a new top-posted message. If
> they arrive at a single message from a search then they may
> have to do double duty to figure out the top-posted context.
> 
> What I don't like about about top-posting is that it leads to
> people leaving the original postings untrimmed beneath their
> response. What is far worse is a one-liner bottom posting at
> the very end of a multi-responded untrimmed message.

A. Because it breaks the logical order of conversation. 
Q. Why is top posting bad?


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