Guest guest Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 >The worst thing about top-posting is having to reply to one and >copying and pasting the quoted text into the proper order. If the >thread requires the context be kept for proper understanding, it >becomes almost impossible to sort through a, say, 4th-generation >email that has been continually top posted, or worse, both top and >bottom-posted. > >Chris This is my biggest complaint too! I sometimes don't want to respond to top posters at all because they've forced me to rearrange the email by cutting and pasting passages and putting them back in sequential order. Seems awfully incosiderate to me. Bottom posters are far more considerate (and logical, IMO) by following proper sequential order from top to bottom and not forcing responders to laboriously cut and paste everything back into a sequential order when responding. Suze Fisher (avowed bottom poster) Lapdog Design, Inc. Web Design & Development http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3shjg Weston A. Price Foundation Chapter Leader, Mid Coast Maine http://www.westonaprice.org ---------------------------- “The diet-heart idea (the idea that saturated fats and cholesterol cause heart disease) is the greatest scientific deception of our times.” -- Mann, MD, former Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee; heart disease researcher. The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics <http://www.thincs.org> ---------------------------- > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 At 09:50 AM 7/2/2004, you wrote: >This is my biggest complaint too! I sometimes don't want to respond to top >posters at all because they've forced me to rearrange the email by cutting >and pasting passages and putting them back in sequential order. Seems >awfully incosiderate to me. Bottom posters are far more considerate (and >logical, IMO) by following proper sequential order from top to bottom and >not forcing responders to laboriously cut and paste everything back into a >sequential order when responding. > > > >Suze Fisher (avowed bottom poster) oh now wait a minute! i was a died in the wool bottom poster. (or, inline poster). i was also a died in the wool never-signed-my-name-er. and everyone clamored blah blah blah top posting! blah blah blah, sign your name! so here i was, changing my WHOOLLLLLE style for you guys! <mutter mutter> call me inconsiderate...<mutter grumble> <mutter>waffles have gluten, don'tcha know...<mutter> -katja, who apparently will continue signing her name but will return to bottom or inline posting, and who protests being called " illogical " ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 > RE: OT top posting > > >At 09:50 AM 7/2/2004, you wrote: >>This is my biggest complaint too! I sometimes don't want to respond to top >>posters at all because they've forced me to rearrange the email by cutting >>and pasting passages and putting them back in sequential order. Seems >>awfully incosiderate to me. Bottom posters are far more considerate (and >>logical, IMO) by following proper sequential order from top to bottom and >>not forcing responders to laboriously cut and paste everything back into a >>sequential order when responding. >> >> >> >>Suze Fisher (avowed bottom poster) HEY! SHE BOTTOM POSTED! Woohooo!!!! > > >oh now wait a minute! >i was a died in the wool bottom poster. (or, inline poster). i was also a >died in the wool never-signed-my-name-er. and everyone clamored blah blah >blah top posting! blah blah blah, sign your name! so here i was, changing >my WHOOLLLLLE style for you guys! The name thing is a good idea :-) As for clamoring for top posting, that's not my memory of the last round of this debate. Seems to me there were far more of us bottom posters (no relation to " bottom feeders " hehe) clamoring for bottom posting. > ><mutter mutter> call me inconsiderate...<mutter grumble> ><mutter>waffles have gluten, don'tcha know...<mutter> heheheh... > >-katja, who apparently will continue signing her name but will return to >bottom or inline posting, and who protests being called " illogical " ! > Hey guys, it worked! She's baaaaaaack.... :-P That was a logical move, my dear. Welcome back :-D Suze Fisher Lapdog Design, Inc. Web Design & Development http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3shjg Weston A. Price Foundation Chapter Leader, Mid Coast Maine http://www.westonaprice.org ---------------------------- " The diet-heart idea (the idea that saturated fats and cholesterol cause heart disease) is the greatest scientific deception of our times. " -- Mann, MD, former Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee; heart disease researcher. The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics <http://www.thincs.org> ---------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 At 10:25 AM 7/2/2004, you wrote: >That was a logical move, my dear. Welcome back :-D > > >Suze Fisher man. i feel SOOOO much better now! -katja Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 2, 2004 Report Share Posted July 2, 2004 (Note deleted text I'm not responding to absent HERE) > The name thing is a good idea :-) Dear Suze, I agree. I don't like to not know who I'm responding to, and I also prefer to address the person personally. Sometimes the email address does not resemble a name, so it's rather annoying to have to address someone as " Dear slipperydog " or something like that. As for clamoring for top posting, that's > not my memory of the last round of this debate. Seems to me there were far > more of us bottom posters (no relation to " bottom feeders " hehe) clamoring > for bottom posting. I think there were quite a lot of top-posting advocates. However, I think also that the people who post to the list MORE and write longer posts were almost unequivocally and universally in favor of bottom- posting, and thus there were much longer, intricate, and logically argued posts in favor of bottom-posting, whereas those in favor of top-posting tended to write fewer emails about it, write shorter emails about it, and write less detailed explanations about why top- posting is preferred. (Usually summed up in " I read it once, why should I read it again? " and " With top-posting, I don't have to scroll. " ) Chris (insert more unnecessary text I did not respond to HERE) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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