----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr Adam J Trickett" <adam.trickett@???>
To: "Hants LUG" <hampshire@???>
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 11:08 AM
Subject: [Hampshire] Benefits of top-posting?
> Hi,
>
> I'm not trying to start a flame war and I don't want to know about
> bottom or bottom/interleaved posting, but I'd like to know from
> people what are the actual benefits if any of top posting.
>
> Everyone at work top posts and it drives me mad trying to figure
> out what they are saying on complex emails, but everyone also says
> it's the norm, and question why I bottom post.
>
> I can see the following:
>
> * It's easy for short answers where you are answering to the subject
> line, and there is pretty much no content.
>
> * It's lazy/easy because it's the default behaviour of Lookout.
>
> * Everyone else does it: it's the convention.
>
> However I can't really see the point as it stands. The people who like
> to top-post what is the benefit to you, why do you do it?
>
> --
> Adam Trickett
> Overton, HANTS, UK
>
Personally, I don't mind top posting. As you say, at work people top-post
and at home, people don't - not quite sure why.
The one thing I would say is that (as I guess many of us are) I'm a member
of about 20 mailing lists and I've seen more column inches (or whatever the
tech equivalent is - bytes I guess) devoted to flaming wars about top
posting than anything else. It seems those that hate it - hate it with a
passion seldom seen anywhere else.
Cheers
Rob
