[Gllug] Threaded email clients

[Chris Bell]

On Wed 07 Sep, Tom Schutzer-Weissmann wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 08:36 +0100, Chris Bell wrote:
> > On Wed 07 Sep, Peter Childs wrote:
> > > 
> > > Most people actually perfer top posting because they can see what new 
> > > without having to scroll or read through alot of old rubbish. I've 
> > > actually had customers complain about bottom posting.
> > 
> >    The argument is not top v bottom posting but in favour of properly edited
> > and inserted posting, so that the new text sits correctly by the original
> > where it is appropriate.
> 
> I believe in some cases the argument *is* top v bottom, in a wider
> sense, because I think well-edited bottom posting with threading gives
> you a much better representation of what happens to a topic when it gets
> discussed by lots of people with different opinions and priorities, and
> that is exactly what some people don't like. They find it too
> democratic, and top-posting's similarity to a tangled audit-trail well
> suits their illusions of (top-down) control.
> 
> Maybe I'm reading too much into things, but I do find it odd that people
> want a discussion to be represented in a linear form when without
> enforcing strict turn-taking, no discussion worth having can be so
> represented.
> 
   I am not against either top or bottom posting, as long as it is
appropriate, although it is not unusual to have several individual sections
in an email to which comments you add may apply, and it can cause confusion
if your comments are not edited into the relevant sections.



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Chris Bell

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