Am 17.05.2014 23:22, schrieb Always Learning:
Top posting ALWAYS makes sense when the poster has included nearly 200 lines of redundant and time-wasting waffle from previous posters.
False argument.
Top-posting is nearly always combined with fully quoting the previous mailing. That is bsolutely unnecessary on a mailinglist and even a waste of resources.
Strip off redundant content!
Scrolling down - all the way down - to read a few words is time wasting and irritating.
Then why not just erasing all the rubbish you don't care about?
Until posters ruthlessly exclude all redundant material, top posting makes sense because it is the fastest and most efficient method of conveying a response to others on the mail list.
No, it just demonstrates that you as the top-poster and full quoter are not caring for the previous communication and not caring enough for a sane readable thread. If the top-poster just cares for his quick and "easy" action, then why does he reply at all?
There is an art to replying intelligently to a previous posting - interspersing replies to the previous poster's comments BUT ALWAYS EXCLUDING SURPLUS TEXT.
full ack!
I blame M$ for introducing TOP POSTING.
It makes no sense to blame a company, it is the people who don't make enough effort to help everyone on a mailinglist to follow the discussions in an efficient way by seeing the questions and answers in a quick way.
Have you ever searched for something in a mailing list archive and then stumbled about a thread where proper quoting and stripping the context is wildly mixed with top-poster and full-quoter messages? It is a mess to find the helpful arguments and content.
Alexander