On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Patrick Wiseman <pwise...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The usual objection to top posting is that it destroys the logical > flow of the conversation (and no doubt someone will post a > conversation in reverse order to illustrate the point). But I agree > with you, and for years read my email in reverse chronological order > precisely so that I could save time getting to the bottom line (at the > top), so to speak. > > That said, this list's protocol requires inline or bottom posting > (which I've just violated for obvious reasons), as is the case on most > technical lists. Every one of the academic lists I have ever been on > prefers (based on practice, at least) top posting. Go figure. > > Patrick > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Brad Alexander <stor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm just curious why so many people get so upset about top posting. To my > > mind, as threads get longer, those keeping up with the thread would not > want > > to scroll through messages that they have already read. I know that I > don't. > > If they are commenting inline, that is fine, but I think that scrolling > to > > the bottom of each and every message is more of a pain than if a > respondent > > posts at the top of the message. > > > > And please forgive me for starting this. > > > > Thoughts? >
