I Also prefer the top posts. Much quicker to find the response and I
also have trouble with some bottom posts that are one liners and the
signature is a number of lines. It is sometimes hard to pick out the
response.
Mike M.
On Jul 5, 2004, at 10:50 PM, Larry Brown wrote:
> Now to ruin any possibility of being taken seriously on this list...
>
> Why is it that people are so adamant about having people not top post?
> People say it is the most annoying thing for them. I think it is much
> better than the bottom posting. I suppose if I skipped around a lot
> and
> did not follow the threads I'm interested in, I might not feel this
> way. Truth is, if I'm following a thread, I already know what the
> previous posts where and am only interested in the current postings
> view/input. Grant it I would much prefer previous posts being broken
> up
> into splices and comments made on each point the previous person made,
> but this takes a lot of time and I can understand why people might not
> want to go through the trouble. However, I find it annoying to have to
> page through previous posts information to get down to the meat of the
> current post. I'd rather have previous posts at the bottom where I
> could read them if I didn't know what the current posting was referring
> to. (which would only happen the first time I started reading a
> thread)
>
> Sorry to go on about this, but I just can't believe I'm the only person
> who prefers top posting. So someone... please make me a believer or
> prove the "accepted reader's disgust of top posting" to be in error.
>
> Larry
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