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Re: Which is better - TOP-POSTING OR BOTTOM-POSTING? (Was: Re: Any freeware app to re-format an ntfs...)
de Maynard Man 06/16/2006 07:23
"Shuttle Coche" <Shuttlecoch@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:44923f71$0$6152$39cecf19@news.twtelecom.net...
> "Daniel Mandic" <daniel_mandic@ping.at> wrote in message
> news:44908206$0$3882$91cee783@newsreader01.highway.telekom.at...
>> John wrote:
>>
> <snip>
>> > posting. My own preference is to bottom-post but this is virtually
>> > impossible if posting to a Microsoft group.
>> >
>> > John
>>
>> Yes. Top-posting is the default setting with MS OE or Outlook Office.
>>
>> Daniel Mandic
>>
>
> Probably started with email replies ? The original emailer would know
> what he said in an earlier message to a known person.
> However, with newsgroups, a post may contain parts of many individual
> statements and veer off in many new directions.
> Plus, there is often a time-lag in newsgroups when posts may be delayed
> for some time on the many independent providers out there.
>
> I think middle-posters should leave a blank line above and below thier
> insertions to separate it from the surrounding quotes which it refers to.
> For clarity.
>
I don't see what differnce it makes. Top or bottom doesn't bother me. The
content is same whichever way and it's only the response I want to read as I
read the previous post usually. I don't think you can judge anyone for top
or bottom posting nor can I understand why a small few do so, although it's
only really the "know all's" or the "I'm better than you" types that tend
to.