Message: 5 Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:39:23 +0100 From: Paul <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Top Posting.... To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <1112053163.4989.83.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi,
Personally, when dealing with very active lists and following the
thread, top posting is a time saver.
It isn't. Imagine a situation where you have two (or more) questions with similar but different answers. Top post the answer and you don't know what is being referred to which leads to wide scale confusion. Top posting is NEVER a timesaver. Do you answer the phone by answering a point or question before you've heard what is being asked?
I think this falls into the realm of personal preference, some people like it, some not....
Some people also like email signatures which follow "-- ". Seems your email client is somewhat broken - like the argument for top-posting.
TTFN
Paul
Since a telephone-call is a real-time communication, while e-mail is not, your comparison is also somewhat broken ;)
It is a little strange, that in a community where people choose their OS for the choices and freedom, there are people who say 'we still want you to choose my choice, if you go ahead with your own choice, we will ignore your messages'. Sounds kind of childish to me..... But that is just my personal observation....
As for the disclaimer (it wasn't a signature), many people don't have any choice about this, since it is either company policy or added not by the mail-client, but by the MTA.
Kind regards, Angelo
