I'm with you Capitol, though the reason I tend to top post is twofold:-
1. every office I have ever worked in MOD or government the latest
correspondence is placed on top of the file and that has been a convention
since before the computer was invented.
2. those people who insist on no top posting tend not to snip resulting in
my having to scroll through piles of clutter before I get to the point. It
really F***s me off! It's a bit like the guy who, when you ask him a
question, he repeats it the question before he answers. Damn that is so
annoying.
As for the arguement that top posting places the answer before the question
what a load of crap. When I read a top posted answer I have already read the
original question in the previous post I don't need to read it again.
That fact that some people 'killfile' top posters makes them very childish.
Just because a person top posts doesn't mean he has nothing to say. However,
having said that we may end up talking to each other.
Steve R
Capitol wrote:
Hi, as about the only reasoning response, I thought you might like to
hear some reasons.
The current standard of newsreader is Microsoft OE. This is a top
posting protocol. Bottom posted replies are a pain in the butt for
quick reading of the letters in a theme. Many responses are in fact
mid posted where the topic is more complex. If you want to see the
problems of mid and bottom posting in a crap news reader, simply look
up a complex thread in Google and try to follow it. It is much easier
to follow in top posted OE.
I have seen a number of responses to various other posters in this
newsgroup from a particular pedant who endeavours to promote
yesterdays newsgroups standards as the Bible for tomorrow. When he
attacked my style of posting I responded and will continue always to
do so. IMO There is no style of posting which is best. If the news
reader cannot cope with OE style correspondence, then I regret to
say, that it is a minority taste. Whether the content is worth
reading is another matter. However, I was very impressed with the
generally low literary and intellectual quality of the response I
received. The education system is certainly failing. If the DIY
skills are down to this level, then IMM is right! I shall continue to
post in my current style, particularly if it upsets the usenet
pedants who are still Canute like, refusing to accept that the
present standard is Microsoft and top posting. Congratulations on
being the only respondent with a sense of reason and proportion.
Regards
Capitol
Martin Angove wrote in message ...
In message ,
"Capitol" wrote:
Huge wrote in message ...
"Capitol" writes:
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please?
Do you think you could give consideration to not top-posting,
You missed the point, that, for all government employees, the
pensions
"Capitol" writes: Huge
wrote in message ...
Capitol
Regards
NO!!!!
Not a problem. Unless you wanted me to see your postings, that is.
No, I think, I'd rather you retained your vital delusions of self
importance in telling other people what do! So don't bother to
open your mind to a different viewpoint.
Regards
Capitol
Sorry, Huge has a point on this one:
1: Consistency (bottom, OR top) aids readability. Everyone doing
different makes it very difficult to follow a thread.
2: Bottom posting is the accepted way of doing things in practically
every newsgroup since the year dot. (Ok, "post" posting is more like
it; the principle of replying *after* the bit you are replying to is
what counts)
3: Almost everyone on this ng bottom posts, and many will correct
previous top postings, so the occasional top poster *really* mucks
things up.
4: A short 1 or 2 line top post is often missed (unless I'm unusual)
when there's a large posting history, as I see the history and
automatically page to the first non-indented bit of text (my reader
colours the indents differently, first indent gets green, second red.
Non quoted text is black and thus instantly recognisable).
Having said all that, he did rather bombard you with it, so perhaps
he could have been a bit more gentle.
Hwyl!
M.
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