> Hi Robert ! > >> (please don't top post.) > > I've wondered about this for some time, actually. > On one hand it seems easier to get straight to the point at the top of > the doc, but if I got this right, it supposedly breaks the hierarchy of > the thread ? > (Conversely, over the years it used to annoy me at times - on groups > such as Y! MSP430 - that I had to first scroll down for half an hour to > see whether comments are effectively at the end, or whether they're > interspersed.. a top post avoids that ? ) > > Could you elucidate why you dislike top post ? > I'm fairly new to linux, so I'm wondering whether it's my 'bad habits' - > inherited from Outlook/Win ? :-) > There seemed to be a lot of debate around when I researched this a while > ago pro and con, hence why I'm curious. > > Best regards, > Kris Kris, It is not just Robert. It is the entire Linux Kernel Mailing List collection. ie. Dozens of mailing lists. The idea is that with high-volume lists most readers do not read every message and certainly cannot remember all previous context. So it is felt that each e-mail should be readable in a standalone fashion as much as possible. This means newer content should go after the older content in order that response can be read with proper context. OTOH, having to scroll through tons of unrelated context is also a major issue, so aggressive trimming of unrelated quotes is also encouraged. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer Preservation and Forensic processing of Exchange Repositories White Paper - <http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/tng_whitepaper_fpe.html> The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
