Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT Top/Bottom posting] Re: Sun Weblog Publisher broken

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Subject: 	Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT Top/Bottom posting] Re: Sun Weblog 
Publisher broken
Date:   Tue, 31 May 2011 09:04:19 -0400
From:   Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>
To:     users@libreoffice.org


> On 2011-05-31 8:50 AM, Earl Melton wrote:
>   
> > I don't know about [developers], but it sure wastes the hey out of 
> > [my] time. When you've read ten or more messages with the same
> > subject line, you've got a fair idea what the next reply is about.
> > Read the poster's comment, then scroll -- if necessary -- to read
> > context, rather than scrolling for endless screens just to find the
> > latest comment. Just my two one-hundredths oif a Federal Reserve
> > Note's worth...
> >     
>
> Please stop with the same old tired false premise/FUD...
>
> *No* *one* (in their right mind) advocates *untrimmed* bottom/inline
> posting, which, I *agree*, is the *only* thing that is worse than
> blindly top-posting. *Properly* *trimmed*, you generally don't have to
> scroll *at* *all*.
>
> Regardless of which method you engage in, you should *always* trim your
> quoted text to only the relevant portion.
>
>   
This is getting to be a pretty tiresome thread, and it is obvious that 
the main protagonists are never going to change their views, no matter 
how right or wrong they are.

However, you've hit the nail on the head, tanstaafl.  Maybe no one 
*advocates* untrimmed bottom posting, but many people do it, and it is 
extremely counter-productive in so many ways.  Notwithstanding all your 
emphases above, the fact is that *very* *few* people, particularly those 
writing in non-newsgroup environments but also many many newsgroup 
posters, do any trimming, let alone the 'proper trimming' to which you 
refer.  That is one, just one, of the reasons why most people top-post 
and will continue to do so.  I get so sick of being forced to page down 
to see the latest text that, unless it is a subject in which I am 
particularly interested, I will often delete the message unread if the 
latest contribution is not visible on the first screen page.

This message is bottom-posted only because the last one was.

Lindsay Graham
Canberra, Australia 

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