1 Apr
2005
1 Apr
'05
11:54 a.m.
On Fri, 01 Apr, 2005 at 11:59PM +1000, Mark Constable spake thus:
On Friday 01 April 2005 23:44, Dave Phillips wrote:
A. Because it breaks the logical order of conversation.
Q. Why is top posting bad?
--
"I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated
Development
That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you."
(By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
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.