me too! (couldn't resist) B-) On Friday 11 August 2006 10:54 am, Michael Wolf wrote:
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:43:39 +0200, Philipp Thomas
wrote: * Orn E. Hansen (orn_hansen@thalamus.nu) [20060810 23:18]:
Top post is "ok" in cases, where you aren't answering to anything specific
IMNSHO, top posting is *never* OK, like reading a book back to front is in most cases nonsense.
It's not ok very often, but never say never. :)
When somebody "me too!"s - and there are good reasons to do that, sometimes - there's really no harm in the response being on top. In fact, I think it's better put it on top than to pedantically follow the post-at-the-bottom rule without understanding why and when it's worth following.
It's true that top posting can be pretty inconvenient to people who use archaic mailers [0], but I'd argue that those archaic mailers are pretty inconvenient anyway.
On the other hand, mails with lines of more than 80 characters (except when they include literal output) have no excuse. :)
[0] The official definition of an archaic mailer, that I'm making up as I write this, is one that doesn't thread mails.
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