[dundee] top posting / bottom posting

[Martin Habets]

This page unintentionally left empty

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 02:32:31PM +0100, Robert Ladyman wrote:
> ...but the claims for bottom posting are that it enables one to read the 
> entire message in order: but if you've trimmed it you can't do that, can you?
> 
> > 
> > The thing with bottom posting and the point you make about too much
> > scrolling, is that your supposed to snip away bits of the message that
> > aren't relevant to your reply to keep the thing looking sane.

Inlining added for completeness.

> > And can people really not see that top posting really screws up the
> > ability to have threaded discussions!?
> > 
> > Andrew
> > 
> 
> ...but the claims for bottom posting are that it enables one to read the 
> entire message in order: but if you've trimmed it you can't do that, can you?
> 
> (I now claim to have invented sandwich posting: it allows you to feed me in  
> troll-mode).
> 
> -- 
> Robert Ladyman
> File-Away Limited
> 3 Ralston Business Centre, Newtyle, Blairgowrie
> Perthshire  PH12 8TL SCOTLAND
> Tel: +44 (0) 1828 898 158
> Mobile: +44 (0) 7732 771 649
> http://www.file-away.co.uk
> 
> ============================================
> Registered Office: 32 Church Street, Newtyle, Blairgowrie
> Perthshire, PH12 8TZ SCOTLAND
> Registered in Scotland, Company Number SC222086
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list
> dundee at lists.lug.org.uk  http://dundeelug.org.uk
> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee
> Chat on IRC, #tlug on irc.lug.org.uk

This page also unintentionally left empty

-- 
Martin
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
3^H20 years from now GNU/Linux will be as redundant a term as MERT/UNIX 
is today. - Martin Habets
---------------------------------------------------------------------------