[Klug-general] top-posting

[Margot]

Shish wrote:
>> On a relatively quiet list (like this one) it isn't too bad, but on 
>> a very busy list it is extremely annoying having to read the answer 
>> first and then scroll down to find out which of the day's 600 
>> messages you were actually responding to!
>>
>> Several popular email clients automatically place the cursor at the 
>> top of the incoming message in the reply window - so the uninitiated 
>> assume that they should start typing where the cursor is. Actually, 
>> the placement of the cursor at the top is a feature that is intended 
>> to make it easy for you to scroll down the incoming message, 
>> snipping out irrelevant parts before you type your reply at the bottom.
> 
> Two points seem to be mentioned: The first is posting a new thread with
> the same subject, instead of replying to the existing thread; the second
> being withing the body of the mail, putting the reply before the thing
> being replied to.
> 
> Both are bad, for similar reasons; I don't seem to see people
> complaining about the first so much though, and I don't know if there's
> a term for it...
> 
>     -- Shish

Breaking threads is usually not deliberate - it mostly happens when 
someone uses email software that doesn't handle threading properly, 
and/or when the original post in a thread is deleted after being 
read so that subsequent "forks" in the replies then show as separate 
threads.

-- 
Margot