Re: [libreoffice-users] top-posting

On 2/17/2011 6:58 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 07:58:08PM +0000, Tom Davies wrote:
>
>            ........snip.........
>
> > At first i was prepared to accept that there might be technical reasons
> > why bottom posting is better but now i am beginning to think that anything
> > except top posting is insane.
> That's undoubtedly the reason many mailing lists suggest doing it.
>
> You have something against trimming quotes?

I don't know if you'd count this as a "technical reason," but archives are a lot more generally 
useful if threads can be read top to bottom, instead of "somewhere near bottom to bottom," 
"somewhere higher up than before to where I was before," etc. The presence of archives, or people 
coming in to a discussion that's already underway, is the main reason that mailing lists differ from 
normal conversational e-mailing where there may well be only two parties, or several people who have 
all been there since the beginning, where everybody just needs to see the most recent addition to 
the conversation (or occasionally look deeper into the material for reference) and top posting is 
the most effective way to keep communications going.

But this whole discussion has been held so many times that we're *very* unlikely to come to a fully 
satisfactory conclusion. It can take on a fervor that always reminds me of Jonathan Swift's 
Lilliputians and their "big-endian"/"little-endian" wars.

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