Re: [libreoffice-users] top-posting

On 2/18/2011 11:30 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 2011-02-17 9:18 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote:
> > 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.
> That makes much more sense on a FORUM...
>
> But, Barbara, honestly, I guarantee you the vast majority of people who
> participate on mail lists do not go to the archives to read entire
> threads... ever. They come here to post a question and get an answer.

Understood. But we do have archives, and we do try to encourage people to use them. That's why I say 
there's not ever likely to be a totally satisfactory solution to this.

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