[G4] Speeding up

[Tim Collier]

Personally, when I see an email with all of the original stuff at the  
top, unless it is something that REALLY interests me, I just skip on  
to the next one.  The way I have Apple mail set up is the mail  
accounts on the left the messages at the top and a preview at the  
bottom.  If I don't see anything interesting in the bottom pane, like  
an actual reply....on to the next one I go.  I guess I probably miss  
a lot of 'really interesting stuff' but having to scroll down just  
annoys me.  The particular message from the person asking regarding  
broadband, since he/she was responding to my reply and had posted at  
the bottom, I thought I was obligated to read the reply at the  
bottom....that was the ONLY reason I would EVER even to bother to  
scroll down.  Lazy of me, no doubt, but I get quite a few emails per  
day and if I took the time to sit here and scroll down to read all  
the posted nested garbage, I think that's all I'd be doing all day.   
So, call me a top posting kind of guy.  I'm not a Bad Person and  
tonight I'll ask God to forgive me my sins regarding this also.
To all of you who will be fasting at sundown tonight, may it go well  
and have a wonderful Yom Kippur experience.

Tim Collier (Ish Emunah ben Avraham)
On Oct 12, 2005, at 4:11 AM, Tony Johansen 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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Exterminate all rational though.