Peter Nikolic wrote:
Top posting is exactly what you have just done ... post your comment ABOVE which makes it hard to follow the flow of the article.
Please don't go on about putting the most recent information first. Those who have read previous emails have no problem following the flow and seeing it repeated ad infinitum/ad nauseum, is just mind numbing. Besides...you are forcing people with disabilities to work harder -- think of blind people having to read through scads of repeated text until they get to the new content. Learn the essentials of writing. The important stuff goes first. Email is not a journal nor a "story", it's a discussion, where I put my answer first, and you put yours first in response. I don't need to reread what I just wrote to you, nor what I just read in the previous email. It's also hard on people who have RSI -- or at least it is for me, as it requires moving over to the scroll bar to scroll down -- or to do "something" to get to the real content. This archaic nonsense by militant hardliners has got to go. It doesn't make sense in any professional setting nor personal setting. It only makes sense if one is trying to build a story -- or a record that can be read from start to finish -- but that's not what email is about. It's about communication -- it wasn't designed to be a "log book". If you want logging, look at the previous emails. With any any half-way decent mail reader, threads are indented and with a neat addon (threadvis,threadvis.mozdev.org), you can see my point: conversations are not linear -- making the whole point of attempting 'journal' ordering pointless and misleading. I attached the image of this discussion -- it's spaghetti! Your post is the one farthest to the right. There were two other posts in between the post you responded to and you. You really should try out T-Bird. Works just fine on linux. BTW, I 'bottom' posted, because in this case, it made 'sense'. I responded to a short quote of what you said, but when people included pages of previous text, and add a few lines at the bottom, they should be forced to listen to elevator music for days on end. linda
