| Tobias DiPasquale on 29 Aug 2004 18:16:03 -0000 |
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Aug 29, 2004, at 1:43 PM, Howard Bloom wrote: That's right, I use Outlook. That's your own damn fault. Please remember that this is a Linux User Group list. 1. I like it.
2. It is quicker. Only to compose a message; to read the messages in a thread whose participants have all (or even partially) top-posted is MUCH slower. 3. It makes sense. Not really, considering the answer to #2 above and the fact that the number of times a message is composed (1) is far outweighed by the number of times it will be read in the future (including spiders and whatnot). Consider the chapters of a book: what would you think of an author that put the chapters in reverse order (19, 18, 17... 2, 1, TOC)?? And how much more difficult would it be to read said book? IMO, all MUAs should implement something along the lines of Gmail: automatically hide the quoted text and organize messages by "conversation" (thread), such that following the stream of thoughts is much easier without having to read a bunch of quoted text. Until such time, however, for posterity and ease of reading, bottom-posting is the way to go. - -- Tobias DiPasquale 202A 04C4 2CE6 B985 8520 88D6 CD25 1A6C B9B5 1595 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFBMh0gzSUabLm1FZURAkJEAJ4hoizvwA8Nw1XSKPPRRTGJW/w4GQCfQL0D rqrXqAQ28zc2gag7aglMdhc= =VF1C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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