On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:25:20 -0600 Wendell Nichols <wcn00@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Where did all this top posting facisim come from in the first place? > It makes it much harder to read hundreds of postings when I have to > scroll to the bottom of every post so see whats been added! Mail > readers display mail from the TOP. Arggg > wcn > In a personal conversation where both parties are aware of everything that has gone before, top posting makes sense, because it skips all the irrelevant past detail while leaving it available for reference. On a mail list, where thousands of people read the message, and might not have seen any foregoing parts of the conversation, top posting does not make sense. It is like reading a conversation backward. Now, bottom or interspersed posting is meant to be combined with trimming the prior messages so you don't have to do the page down or hit the end key. So, different context, different behavior. Pretty typical of human beings in every aspect of their life. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
