11 Jun
2006
11 Jun
'06
7:36 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Don Y wrote:
Yes, I planned it that way! The hard part was telepathically
getting Jay to type all that "Don said:..." stuff in ABOVE
his post before I sent mine! ;-)
Hi,
Is there an "accepted norm" for correspondence, here,
with respect to top posting and message trimming?
Or, am I just being a grumpy olde farte? :>
Funnily enough, your message landed after Jay's reply, so it was sort-of
like a top post :-P I don't like top posting much for various reasons
- but what really
irritates is when people top-post in an environment filled with
bottom-posters, as any kind of context gets seriously messed up (unless
you go around editing top-posted replies and converting them to
bottom-posted ones when replying to them)
I think top posting can possibly make sense if two people
are carrying on a (private, two party) discussion and can
remember the last thing they said to each other, etc.
But, for the most part, I think it is just laziness ("I don't
have time to scroll down 5 lines and insert my reply where
it belongs...")
I suspect this list if filled with grumpy old farts,
though ;)
<grumble> <mumble> *belch* :>