Re: Not vbasic related post but related to the posting in forum
- From: "Larry Serflaten" <serflaten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:07:23 -0600
"Jack" <replyto@it> wrote
People, where that bad habit of appending replies come from?<...>
It does not make sense!
Why not to post (write reply) just at the top, leaving previous messages
below?
It would make reading and browsing much easier!
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Top posting is not a bad habit, it is a preferred style. It makes sense in that
any reader who happens upon the message can gather the gist of the conversation
without hunting for previous replies. Normal speech follows this pattern, you
normal identify the topic you are going to address, before you discuss it.
How would it be if stories were told in a bottom posted manner?
----
The guy I was talking to said; "You can walk there in less than five minutes."
So I did.
Before that I had asked how much it would cost and he said more than
you'd care to pay, and I asked Why?
Prior to that He said; "Sure, the Hilton has one" when I asked him if I
could find a hotel with a swimming pool and if he could take me there.
Last week I flew out to Omaha and caught up with a taxi driver there.
---
If you put those in their proper order, it makes for eaiser reading, so too
the posts in a thread.
What makes top posting annoying is that some do not trim the replies to
highlight what they are addressing in their own post. This is a two fold
problem in that readers have to scroll an excessive amount (as you
indicated) and including the entire converstaion wastes space everywhere
it goes. (The server, your system, my system, and the system of every
reader of that message). If everyone would trim the prior posts to cover
only enough to convey the idea, top posting would be far less annoying
to scroll through.
And just to complete the argument (to those who say one can just go
back and read previous messages to understand what is being discussed)
depending on the reader, and display style, finding the start of a sub thread
of a conversation may not be all that easy to do. Fnding the first post of
the thread may be a bit easier, but when discussions take a detour, and sub
conversations develop (as they often do) locating the start of the detour
may be difficult at best.
LFS
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