On Fri, 01 Apr, 2005 at 11:59PM +1000, Mark Constable spake thus: > On Friday 01 April 2005 23:44, Dave Phillips wrote: > > I routinely top-post in compliance with the wishes of blind members of > > this and other lists. They use tts readers for their mail and do not > > wish to re-read the original post. > > Seeing it's still April 1 here... > > Very good point but that assumes they are following a thread > and understand the context of a new top-posted message. If > they arrive at a single message from a search then they may > have to do double duty to figure out the top-posted context. > > What I don't like about about top-posting is that it leads to > people leaving the original postings untrimmed beneath their > response. What is far worse is a one-liner bottom posting at > the very end of a multi-responded untrimmed message. A. Because it breaks the logical order of conversation. Q. Why is top posting bad? -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
