Re: Top posting and quoting (was Re: [PLUG] Hauppauge PVR-500 capture...)

["Chuckk Hubbard" <badmuthahubbard@gmail.com>]

The aversion some people have against top-posting is anything but universal.  In some ways it is far more annoying to have to scroll down in a post full of quoted text to find where someone says "I agree," or what have you.
It is not *that* hard to read.  It's fine if you don't like it, but a list devoted to software based on freedom and choice should welcome all options, especially when those options are familiar to internet users.  Try reading a blog where all the new posts go at the bottom.

-Chuckk

On 11/2/07, JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote:

I greatly appreciate all the helpful replies to my OP, including the
tangents.

This is not intended to target any particular person, this example just
happened to be the one that pushed me over the edge today.


> Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 14:15:07 -0400
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Hauppauge PVR-500 capture from composite input?
>
> JP, Sorry this went so off topic!

<entire rest of the thread, ~15K, snipped here!!!>

I don't mind the tangents, since I'm sure everyone learns something.

But everyone please, *please*, PLEASE, trim and edit your replies and
don't top post, unless absolutely required, as in my summary above!!  We
don't need the entire thread, especially since we've strayed so far the
the original question.


Refs
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting


A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?


Thanks!
JP
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