Re: WHAT IS TOP POSTING
From: Alun Jones (alun@texis.com)
Date: 02/12/03
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From: alun@texis.com (Alun Jones) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:31:00 GMT
In article <b2e28f$1b2fuh$1@ID-108275.news.dfncis.de>, "Michael Cargill"
<mikementalist@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Of course if the person has been reading the whole thread, bottom posting
>> will force the reader to wade through the reiteration of the thread in
>every
>> posting.
Only if none of the participants bother to snip anything out. And that's
another bad part of top posting, that most of the people who do it don't
bother to snip out quoted material, with the result that you have to scroll
through the whole conversation just to find out that there isn't actually
anything new further down.
As an aside, what on earth is "bottom posting"? Each paragraph I'm posting
comes _after_ its context, but before the context for any subsequent
paragraphs. Maybe this is "between posting"? Bottom posting, by analogy to
top posting, would be a refusal to snip any quoted context, and simply the
addition of further context at the bottom - that would be as wasteful and
unhelpful as top posting.
>And if the deepest reply has had any quoted portion snipped then
>> the reader absolutely MUST read every post that leads to the reply in
>> question again to find out what is going on. So it looks like replies at
>the
>> bottom have their own set of problems as do posters who snip as I do.
Not hardly, since any snipped context that the reader feels is important can
be re-fetched (in most newsreaders) by following the References chain.
Usually, though, the person snipping has snipped only that which is
unimportant, at least, if he's paying the slightest attention to his snippage.
>> > Knock, knock
>> snip...
>> Yes, that's right.
>>
>> Certainly makes as little sense as your example. Maybe less.
That's because most logical snippers would have replaced it with "...snip of
irritating knock-knock joke intended to show why top posting is bad".
>But thats like moaning that you dont know what is going on when you jump
>into the middle of a conversation.
Sorry, what were we talking about?
Alun.
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