Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote: > On 11/8/07, Collin Kidder <adderd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I'm with Thomas. I think that, while inline posting is a good thing, > > bottom posting is dead stupid and wastes my time. > Just as bad as top-posting, really. > > > It is far easier to > > follow a thread with top posting as the relevant text is right there at > > the top ready to be read. > The relevant bit being what? Two lines dangling loosely > at the top of a mail? > > You omitted the crucial bit here: > "It is far easier FOR ME WITH MY CURRENT MAIL CLIENT > to follow a thread with top posting ..." > If that's good enough reason for you to ignore RFCs and > complain about the habit on this list, by all means, there's > no point in arguing. But we can flog the dead horse some > more .... Offtopic, but what actually confuses me most is people replying to quoted text and not putting a blank line before their additional text, like above. It makes it very hard for me to quickly see the next text. FYI, I only top post when I want talk talk _about_ the email, like "Is this a TODO item", and put a dashed line under my text so people realize I top-posted and there is nothing new below my text. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
