On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, SOTL wrote:
> On Thursday 04 August 2005 01:25 pm, Eben King wrote:
> > --
> > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? [TOFU := text oben,
> > A: Top-posting. followup unten]
> > Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet? -- Daniel Jensen
>
> Just some thoughts:
>
> Why would anyone post after a number of messages when one could post before?
To note what you're replying to.
> This gives the advantage of not having to read all previous answers and
> comments.
And the disadvantage of not keeping the answers after the questions, the
same way they are everywhere else.
> It keeps one from having to scroll to the end to send the update.
"The new info" is important, yes, but it's meaningless without context.
> Then of course one could ask why not post with ask question followed by
> answer thought out the message?
One could also post in garbled language, so the correspondent doen't know
what's talked about.
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"Not only does God play dice, he sometimes throws
them where they can't be seen." -- Stephen Hawking
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