Hartmut Meyer wrote:
those discussions about top or bottom posting, TOFU etc. are surely eating up some bandwith here. What amazes me is that all the arguing seems to miss the point. This is not really about the convenience of reading the answer without scrolling or about how it is "usually" done (an argument used by both parties). If that was all that is to say about top or bottom posting, than it wouldn't be worthwhile to start arguing in the first place. And I guess it is exactly this what most top posters are saying.
I'd have more sympathy for top only posters if they then took the trouble to strip all the crap at the bottom. Personally I use what is appropriate at the time. If I am commenting on a series of points, then the comments go below each point. But I only quote enough of the previous post to maintain the context. Properly threaded discussions, with modern 'browsers', should mean that quoting at all is unnecessary, but until that is achieved ... p.s. I believe that the text to speech options available allow skipping paragraphs, so that anybody relying on that means of output can step through a message as required. BUT the poster needs to be courteous and trim anything unnecessary from the original :) -- Lester Caine ----------------------------- L.S.Caine Electronic Services