[G4] Speeding up

[Richard ramsowr]

--- Tony Johansen <tjoh7019 at bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> On 12/10/2005 10:28 AM, "Tim Collier"
> <collierof1957 at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> > I hate when people post at the bottom of the
> message, it means I
> > actually have to scroll down to read it
> 
> Tim I was at the centre of a long running debate
> earlier in the year over
> this issue. I was a top poster, and I was amazed at
> the passionate and often
> angry arguments from both sides. What it boiled down
> to in the end was that
> there is a tradition handed down from ancient times
> (read anything more than
> 5 years ago) that tech mails are bottom posted.
> There is logic there in that
> when answering a message with several contributions
> the story flows
> naturally down the page and it is easier therefore
> for busy respondents to
> skim the problem and contribute.
> 
> There is a better reason for bottom posting however,
> and that is when people
> give their time freely and often answer dozens of
> questions daily across
> several lists, they are justified in simply skipping
> poorly formatted or
> impolite messages. The etiquette of tech messages
> (by long standing
> convention) is to bottom post, to strip out html,
> and generally delete the
> irrelevant.
> 
> I am not criticising your wonderfully full and
> generous response in this
> thread, just thought you might appreciate knowing
> why the bottom posting
> occurs. It's a small enough matter to follow the
> convention if it makes it
> easier for someone, so I do myself these days.
> 
> All the best,
> Tony.
> http://www.tonyjohansen.com
> A Life In Art 
> 
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Never through of it that way before - So I guess I'm
going to have to move over to the bottom posting camp

Thanks for the feed back

rich