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David J Taylor wrote:

David,

I appreciate the subtle humour here, but virtually all people I communicate
with top post, and I've been using email since the early 90s. It is only
groups like this where it seems to be a problem.  Maybe it is a function of
the mail reader that is being used, (not sure on that one), but I think you
will find that you are in the minority.

Rob

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Here, I'll top post this, and explain why.  It is frequently very difficult to
follow a complex thread due to different indentings, split up messages, some
groups not accepting HTML (like Yahoo's intermittent problems), and just plain
efficiency.  I have frequently missed points because I didn't spend time to comb
through a long thread to see a few words of response buried deep in the
message.  I also get a rather large volume of mail, much of which has a pretty
low SNR.  The quickest, most efficient method in my experience is to top post
when there is a single point to communicate.  Obviously, if you want to cover
many points of a long message, then it makes sense to be inserting the comments
in the proper locations, so you will see me doing that when appropriate.

Besides, what is more important:  the ideas someone has, or their posting
style?  When the posting style becomes more important in a group than the ideas,
I find that's usually not the place for me (and I know there are many others who
share that sentiment, it's far from original).  I suspect we can all easily
adapt to either, both, or an as-appropriate mix of posting styles.

Peter

On 9/21/2011 7:43 AM, Rob Kimberley wrote:

I may be in the minority, Rob, but the natural order for English has been
from top to bottom for as long as I have read books, magazine, newspapers,
reports, written letters or diaries etc.  It seems completely unnatural
and illogical to me to have the answer before the question!  I agree that
it may be the fault of some mail readers that top-posting has started, and
people failing to trim older parts of the message, and failing to scroll
down before they place their replies.

However, likely this is well off-topic, so I'll stop there.

PS: I don't do HTML e-mail either!

Cheers,
David

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Web:  http://www.satsignal.eu
Email:  david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk

At 07:43 AM 9/21/2011, Rob Kimberley wrote...

Microsoft (Exchange), RIM (Blackberry), and Google (Android), all make
it difficult-to-impossible to not top post. But they're all clueless
net newbies, too.

I really find it funny (to say the least) that in the XXI century people concentrate on form rather than content when using such an informal medium as e-mail.

This resembles professional and academic titles that people insist on appending to their names. These human beings are all about appearance. When you squeeze then there's little juice. It's ridiculous!

Regarding HTML mail it's like still using, today, a text based console e-mail client on a VAX/VMS! Fortunately punch cards went away a while ago!

By the way, HTML is a standard and I find it perfectly acceptable to have it used to format content of an e-mail. Are you against standards?

I bet you use MIME or do you attach the links to an FTP server for large files? Not an HTTP server as HTTP was not designed to transfer files.

I believe we have to be flexible and open in the world we live today.

Cheers,
Miguel

PS: Sorry for any typos as English is not my main language.

On 21/09/2011, at 13:07, Peter Gottlieb nerd@verizon.net wrote: