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Please bottom post people... [message #153550]

Sat, 10 April 2004 12:57

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: catcher.catcher.org

Perusing this newsgroup is maddening because there isn't a standard.
Half the answers are on the top and half are on the bottom (even in the
same posting!).

A: No
Q: Is it okay to top post?

Re: Please bottom post people... [message #153554 is a reply to message #153550]

Sat, 10 April 2004 14:18

Eclipse User

Why not? Top posting can be good for short answers or intros to
interspersed answers without having to scroll down thorugh someone
else's post that I've already read just to find (and possibly miss) a
response.

It should depend on context. Like this. I'm not intermixing because this
is the response, and the previous message is there mostly for quick
reference.

(Though people should trim irrelevant parts of the previous message)

-- Scott

In article <c598nc$vma$1@eclipse.org>, catcher@catcher.org says...
> Perusing this newsgroup is maddening because there isn't a standard.
> Half the answers are on the top and half are on the bottom (even in the
> same posting!).
>
> A: No
> Q: Is it okay to top post?

Re: Please bottom post people... [message #153557 is a reply to message #153554]

Sat, 10 April 2004 14:25

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: catcher.catcher.org

Scott Stanchfield wrote:
> Why not? Top posting can be good for short answers or intros to
> interspersed answers without having to scroll down thorugh someone
> else's post that I've already read just to find (and possibly miss) a
> response.
>
> It should depend on context. Like this. I'm not intermixing because this
> is the response, and the previous message is there mostly for quick
> reference.
>
> (Though people should trim irrelevant parts of the previous message)
>
> -- Scott
>
> In article <c598nc$vma$1@eclipse.org>, catcher@catcher.org says...
>
>>Perusing this newsgroup is maddening because there isn't a standard.
>>Half the answers are on the top and half are on the bottom (even in the
>>same posting!).
>>
>>A: No
>>Q: Is it okay to top post?
Because it gets really messy really fast. Just look at the posts in this
group.

Re: Please bottom post people... [message #153621 is a reply to message #153550]

Sat, 10 April 2004 14:39

Eclipse User

+1 for TOP post!!
I hate scrolling doen everytime..
Just set the new (and most importand part) at the top...

johan

> Perusing this newsgroup is maddening because there isn't a standard.
> Half the answers are on the top and half are on the bottom (even in the
> same posting!).
>
> A: No
> Q: Is it okay to top post?
>

Re: Please bottom post people... [message #153626 is a reply to message #153621]

Sat, 10 April 2004 16:34

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: catcher.catcher.org

Johan Compagner wrote:
> +1 for TOP post!!
> I hate scrolling doen everytime..
> Just set the new (and most importand part) at the top...
>
> johan
>
>> Perusing this newsgroup is maddening because there isn't a standard.
>> Half the answers are on the top and half are on the bottom (even in
>> the same posting!).
>>
>> A: No
>> Q: Is it okay to top post?
>>
Maybe because pretty much every newsgroup has a bottom posting standard?

Re: Please bottom post people... [message #153672 is a reply to message #153626]

Sun, 11 April 2004 10:59

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: roror.hotpop.com.nospam

> Maybe because pretty much every newsgroup has a bottom posting standard?

Why not make it a standard here as well? I find it more convenient to read
top posted replies, because only if don't understand what the poster is
referring to then I need to scroll down and see what is it, if I get the
summary of the thread from the last post, then why should I have to read
through ALL the previous posts? Most often than not I find an answer reply
suggests the question as well, so I can skip reading the original question.

There might be some merit of top posting, just that I am not sure what they
are. Can some one enlighten me about it?

Robert wrote:

> Johan Compagner wrote:
>> +1 for TOP post!!
>> I hate scrolling doen everytime..
>> Just set the new (and most importand part) at the top...
>>
>> johan
>>
>>> Perusing this newsgroup is maddening because there isn't a standard.
>>> Half the answers are on the top and half are on the bottom (even in
>>> the same posting!).
>>>
>>> A: No
>>> Q: Is it okay to top post?
>>>
> Maybe because pretty much every newsgroup has a bottom posting standard?

--
Thanks,
Nachi

Re: Please bottom post people... [message #153794 is a reply to message #153672]

Mon, 12 April 2004 07:39

Eclipse User

Nachiketa Sahoo wrote in:

>> Maybe because pretty much every newsgroup has a bottom posting
>> standard?
>
> Why not make it a standard here as well? I find it more convenient to
> read top posted replies, because only if don't understand what the
> poster is referring to then I need to scroll down and see what is it,
> if I get the summary of the thread from the last post, then why should
> I have to read through ALL the previous posts? Most often than not I
> find an answer reply suggests the question as well, so I can skip
> reading the original question.
>

CTRL + END would normally do the trick. Or a single additional mouse-
click.

> There might be some merit of top posting, just that I am not sure what
> they are. Can some one enlighten me about it?

I think you are confusing top and bottom here. Maybe because it is
usually called top- and bottom quoting. This obviously reverses top and
bottom.

But the reason for bottom posting/top quoting is simple. Every newsgroup
out there uses it. People should cut out everything they do not directly
respond to. This will take care of much of the scrolling. I mean, for all
the other things there is google groups.

And if everybody is driving on the left it's simply not done to drive
right. It confuses people and messes up conversations. Normal newsclients
always default to top quoting, for Outlook and Outlook express there are
macro's to get them back to the default usenet (ad hoc) standard.

Maarten

Re: Please bottom post people... [message #154063 is a reply to message #153550]

Tue, 13 April 2004 19:21

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: rtayek.no.spam.freightgate.com

"Robert" <catcher@catcher.org> wrote in message
news:c598nc$vma$1@eclipse.org...
> Perusing this newsgroup ...

+1

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