| Tobias DiPasquale on 30 Aug 2004 02:33:03 -0000 |
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Aug 29, 2004, at 8:17 PM, Michael Leone wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 14:14, Tobias DiPasquale wrote:Only to compose a message; to read the messages in a thread whose participants have all (or even partially) top-posted is MUCH slower. On some of the mailing lists I am on, threads commonly exceed the 50 message mark. Imagine trying to follow those after a week's vacation if everyone was top-posting (or even a sick day!). As well, when I was writing Outlook plugins way back in the day, top-posting was the norm in those forums and I can honestly say that it took me about 50% longer to find what I was looking for than an equivalent discussion on LKML, even though threads on that list tended to be longer. As an aside, top-posting wouldn't really be an issue if MUAs were smarter about the way they managed threads. If most MUAs could hide quoted text (a la Gmail) or provide a tree-based summary of the thread for quick perusal with full-text searching to back that up (highlighting the search terms, of course), then top-posting wouldn't be nearly the faux pas that it is. However, no MUA has all of the above features as of yet, so top-posting just makes things harder to read. It may take a littler bit longer to compose a message, but the benefit to the reader is greater, and as I said, there will on average be many more readers than writers. Think of the readers, people! ;-) - -- Tobias DiPasquale 202A 04C4 2CE6 B985 8520 88D6 CD25 1A6C B9B5 1595 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFBMpEwzSUabLm1FZURAl+kAKCkTklgfgfsP1fizzUl/bjpPXNkAQCfcWxV R9/u9VTnu7mO4yNeJdF6Jnc= =YOuC -----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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