28 Jan
2013
28 Jan
'13
10:35 p.m.
On 28 January 2013 02:31, Sean Conner <spc at conman.org> wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Christian Liendo once
stated:
Well, quite.
The e-mail below is a perfect example of why I do
not like bottom posting
I had to scroll through Liam's original e-mail then Dave's complete
response to get to Liam's response to that response.
And I hate having to scroll down to see the relative context, then
scrolling back up to read your reply. I'm sorry, but unlike you, I cannot
maintain the context of three dozen threads in my inbox (I subscribe to more
than just this list). I find having some context easier on me, even if it
is dozens of lines.
Indeed. Perhaps it is only lightweight email users who top-quote? We
know that they do not understand the niceties of quoting, trimming or
context; perhaps it is a more general thing, that they do not really
grok the fullness of email and treat it like Facebook messages or SMS
or something similarly ephemeral.
And this is an example of why I hate top posting.
You, who bitched about
Liam not trimming his reply have not even bothered to trim your reply here,
and included 112 lines of extraneous emails.
Indeed. But they were /below/ what he wrote -- and thus, out of sight,
out of mind. Somebody's else's problem. "You are in my way, and
anything I do to reduce that is right, even if it causes you massive
inconvenience" - the top-quoters' mindset all over.
Personally, I blame Microsoft Outlook for this,
making it all to damn easy
to post a pithy one line reply and not even bothering to trim the remaining
email.
Quite. Microsoft's Internet client software ranges between poor and
abysmal. The IE team's old email client - MSIMN as was, later Outlook
Express - was OK for the mid-1990s, with no spam checking etc. But
everything since then has ranged from awful to utterly unusable crap.
Unfortunately, there are tens of millions of clueless drones in
offices who know nothing else and thing it is how this stuff is meant
to work.
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