Am 17.05.2014 23:22, schrieb Always Learning:
>
> Top posting ALWAYS makes sense when the poster has included nearly 200
> lines of redundant and time-wasting waffle from previous posters.
False argument.
Top-posting is nearly always combined with fully quoting the previous
mailing. That is bsolutely unnecessary on a mailinglist and even a waste
of resources.
Strip off redundant content!
> Scrolling down - all the way down - to read a few words is time wasting
> and irritating.
Then why not just erasing all the rubbish you don't care about?
> Until posters ruthlessly exclude all redundant material, top posting
> makes sense because it is the fastest and most efficient method of
> conveying a response to others on the mail list.
No, it just demonstrates that you as the top-poster and full quoter are
not caring for the previous communication and not caring enough for a
sane readable thread. If the top-poster just cares for his quick and
"easy" action, then why does he reply at all?
> There is an art to replying intelligently to a previous posting -
> interspersing replies to the previous poster's comments BUT ALWAYS
> EXCLUDING SURPLUS TEXT.
full ack!
> I blame M$ for introducing TOP POSTING.
It makes no sense to blame a company, it is the people who don't make
enough effort to help everyone on a mailinglist to follow the
discussions in an efficient way by seeing the questions and answers in a
quick way.
Have you ever searched for something in a mailing list archive and then
stumbled about a thread where proper quoting and stripping the context
is wildly mixed with top-poster and full-quoter messages? It is a mess
to find the helpful arguments and content.
Alexander
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