This is a silly argument...
On 2011-05-31 1:16 PM, Lindsay Graham wrote:
Ah, but neither of us would *ever *need to page down to see the
current post if we both top-posted.
Irrelevant... like I said, the same thing applies to a properly trimmed
bottom/inline posted message.
The only time I need to scroll a bottom/inline posted message (which I
mostly don't bother doing, I just click delete) is when someone like Tom
bottom posts *without trimming*...
You cannot claim, in a general context, that there is there is a
*proper* way of using one's mail client.
I can, I did, and I meant it.
In most mailing lists (and I access libreoffice-users through a
mailing list, not a newsgroup) and almost *all *commercial
correspondence, top-posting is used.
Ahem... the posting guidelines link at the bottom of each and every one
of the libreoffice-users list asks you to please bottom post... so your
own example was misplaced... ;)
Why? Because, it is the most suitable in those environments.
Wrong - it is because most people are lazy, and it is the easiest, and
because it is the default for Outlook, which is what most corporate
drones use.
On the other hand, I agree that bottom-posting is suitable in a
well-disciplined technical newsgroup -- but how many are
well-disciplined (ie, follow newsgroup netiquette)? Not many.
They are not well disciplined because they are lazy, and because they
can get away with in most cases.
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