From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 23 03:10:12 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF1B16A419 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:10:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from smtp3.utdallas.edu (smtp3.utdallas.edu [129.110.10.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04C8713C4CE for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:10:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from [172.16.1.36] (unknown [76.210.43.110]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp3.utdallas.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6368C654FE for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:10:10 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:10:10 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <7FA9B777A6FFF4225817FE48@[172.16.1.36]> In-Reply-To: <31AE442CCBC1094ABC40CE85B0149F06468CE8@MAIL1.registry.otago.ac.nz> References: <31AE442CCBC1094ABC40CE85B0149F06468CE8@MAIL1.registry.otago.ac.nz> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: top posting (off-topic) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:10:12 -0000 Understood from that perspective, perhaps you can see why people might dislike top posting. Rather, your entire response is at the top, separating itself from the context to which it refers. Furthermore, it can be very confusing to understand precisely what you're referring to, because your response doesn't follow those parts of the post to which you refer. Sometimes top posting makes it really hard to follow which parts of the previous posters words are being referenced. If you think about it from the perspective of all of the readers of a thread, you might feel differently, however. I can understand why you might feel that way. --On November 23, 2007 10:22:50 AM +1300 Brent Jones wrote: > Sorry if this is a bit off topic for this list, but it seem to be a > comment that comes up very regularly; "please don't top post..." > > I for one prefer top posting, as usually I have read a particular thread > enough times that I like to cut to the chase and read the new input > without having to scroll down, sometimes navigating an endless nesting > of >>> For me, reading through top posted replies saves time and > effort. If I happened to miss something in the conversation I can > scroll down to find it. > > Anyone else feel the same? > > Cheers, > Brent > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/