On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 16:53:57 +0100, "Arg"
too_much_sp@m_so_email_disabled. wrote:

I''m with you. I like top posters as it makes it faster to read and
therefore more likely to comment on the return posting.

.... except, of course, that this not only makes it impossible to
follow a series of responses and to place responses in the context of
previous comments, it also disregards the various standards and
conventions that apply to Usenet.

THis is becuase of Outlook Express showing a tree of messages such that you
can read the original easily. Other newsreaders are not set up the same,
which means [dive for cover] that OE has something better in it than other
newsreaders.

[dive for cover] indeed ... you don't seem to know much about other
newsreaders (Agent, which I'm using now, allows for thread-based
display, as well as other options).

It depends on whether the post is a conversation or a questions also.....
nobody ever seems to comment that top posting works well for one, and bottom
posting for the other.

As an earlier response, the issue is not top- vs bottom- posting, its
top- vs. contextual posting. Try responding to each of the points
I've made here using your top-posted preference, and see how
readable/understandable the results are.

Julian



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Julian Fowler
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