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"Dave" wrote:


Just a thought..... plainly mixed top/bottom isn't going to work,
wouldn't it all actually be more logical for everyone to top-post? The
fresh info would then be instantly visible and anyone that wants to see
the history can start reading from the bottom.

No, because as various people have demonstrated the flow will not be
logical. And it will also make it very difficult to interleave and if
nobody did that telling what was being replied to would be difficult
leading to all sorts of misunderstandings. I trust you have been around
usenet long enough to know what misunderstandings can lead to?

Grunff said that top posting was "lazy", 'don't see where laziness comes
in to it.

Because in some newsreaders (OE in particular I'm told) the cursor is
placed at the top by default. So to bottom post or snip and interleave
requires more work than to simply start typing. In that context it is
lazy. If I am trying to talk to someone and they can't be bothered to
turn around and not mumble I might not bother any more. Similarly with
top posters.

Peter

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