Re: Not vbasic related post but related to the posting in forum

"Joe M." <notforreal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OJGRR2%23QIHA.4444@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Bob Butler" <noway@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OULhhw%23QIHA.4752@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Joe M." <notforreal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OTUHzq%23QIHA.1204@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mr. Morley has it right. I consider a newsgroup a large room with many people where conversations are made,

That's precisely why bottom-posting makes sense. As people join in hey can read just the latest post, top to bottom, to get the gist of the conversation. If they need clarification they can go back up the tree to find content that has been cut. Top-posting is fine for a limited discussion between a small number of people but bottom-posting is better for the newsgroups. That's why after all the years that newsgroups have existed it's been the generally preferred format.

I just don't follow your reasoning.

Nor I yours.

Each time you read a post, you really don't mind that step of having to scroll to the bottom to find the reply?

Much less annoying than having to scroll down and then read in chunks backwards up the page to figure out the question.

Its a conversation - a conversation is supposed to be efficient. Open and read. if you then want to know the supporting comments, you scroll down in reverse chron order.

It's a conversation between lots of people over a long time. That makes it very different than a limited converstion between two people over a short time.


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