On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 09:36:12PM -0500, Bob Stia wrote:
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> OK, Let's follow that reasoning. An original message is posted. Someone (or
> several) respond, all top-posting. The next day they answer or add new
> thoughts, all top-posting. This continues for a few days.
>
> Now someone wants to read it. They must scroll down to the bottom of the
> message to read the OP's info that started this thread. it is fairly long so
> the reader scrolls to the top of the message and reads down. Then he wants to
> see a response. He scrolls up past the original message to the begining of
> the response and reads down to the original message. Now he wants to see a
> response from the OP or other comments. So he scrolls up to the begining of
> the third message and reads down again. And over and over again. Does this
> make sense?
No, and what's worse is that most people who do this never snip. So you get
a whole thread in one email, in reverse order, along with the NKS (or
whoever's) footers repeated for as many times as there are messages in the
thread. A waste of bandwidth and a real pain to read.
Paul
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