On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:49:25 -0600 "Nix, Robert P." <Nix.Robert@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Just to take the other viewpoint, I prefer to have the > newest material at the top of the post. If I've been > following a "conversation", I don't want to have to relive > the whole thing just to get to the next piece of > information. I want the newest, most relavant information > at the top. If that's "top posting" (I've never heard the > term before now), then I'm all for it. If I get 10 messages > in my in-box on the same subject, I really don't want to > have to look through the first one ten times. I'd rather > see the newest stuff at the top of each. Add to that the > fact that the e-mail software that I use (both in Linux and > Windows) places me above the quote at the start, and you > have the makings of your typical "top poster". I refuse to > take the time to cut the signature created by the client > and move it to the bottom. Sorry; just not happening. ...[snip]... Hmm... is it just me? Why does it feel like there's lots of "I"'s up there? I thought the ML is for "us"? ;) Anyway, this <quote_from_the_first_post_on_this_thread> What happens if, sometime in the future you decide to to a google search for your past postings, or find something that you had posted a few years ago? </quote_from_the_first_post_on_this_thread> ... should at least give people second thoughts when "top posting". I wonder if this is one the reasons people don't like to STA--kinda hard to read from bottom to top, don't you think? (That's a rhetorical question...) -- - E - __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! BB is Broadband by Yahoo! http://bb.yahoo.co.jp/
