On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:50:14PM +0300, jaakko tamminen wrote:
Top-posting is not a bad thing, no matter what You say.
Top-posting is a bad thing and is against any normal logic. Of course, it depends on one's definition of normality.
If You can't remember, what the previous message was about when following the thread, You are welcome to start reading every message from the bottom up.
If the poster does not provide enough of context of the message he is replying to, I can always find the original message on lists.suse.com. Or order a new copy from this list if I managed to delete it already.
But for me, if I see a long quote in the beginning, and few lines of answer at the bottom, I'm not ready to read it unless it is really interesting.
If quoting is bad and message contains no answers for you, don't read it. Save your time and make your reading easy.
Even worse is replying here and there without paying too much attention how to make it clear where the reply is, and where the original is.
When reading a top-post, if the answer seems to be interesting, and the thread is new to me, then I will read the rest once to get the idea of the thread.
By doing so, I do save a lot of time and effort. You save your time and effort while wasting time and money of the people on dial-up connections paying per kB transferred. Not everybody on this
Original lines are indented, usually with ">" list has cable or DSL, because they simply live in a country where such things do not exist at all. Please think about them a bit.
Even this post, when someone first reads Your post, then reads this reply, do not need to scroll down and try to find my reply. They will remember the previous in the thread (the message I'm replying now), so why indeed they should be bothered to scroll again and again the same text...
Why did you include it then? To make phone bills for guys in poor countries even higher? And scare them from this list?
The main thing to me, is the ease of reading.. and it really can't be that wrong!
It does not affect my ease of reading if you put full original message at the bottom of your comments. It is pure waste of bandwidth. Please do not leave original message at the bottom. And lets get back to technical sides of SuSE Linux. Thanks and regards, -Kastus