From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21473 invoked by alias); 9 May 2014 00:48:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 21463 invoked by uid 89); 9 May 2014 00:47:59 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=3.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,BODY_8BITS,GARBLED_BODY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: Ishtar.tlinx.org Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org (HELO Ishtar.tlinx.org) (173.164.175.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 09 May 2014 00:47:58 +0000 Received: from [192.168.4.12] (Athenae [192.168.4.12]) by Ishtar.tlinx.org (8.14.7/8.14.4/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id s490lnP3057856 for ; Thu, 8 May 2014 17:47:53 -0700 Message-ID: <536C25B4.8050504@tlinx.org> Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 00:48:00 -0000 From: Linda Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: On why bottom posting.... References: <536796E4.2090009@breisch.org> <20140505135928.GK30918@calimero.vinschen.de> <53679D5C.5030209@breisch.org> <20140505144745.GA6993@calimero.vinschen.de> <5367ACED.40409@breisch.org> <20140505154230.GB7694@calimero.vinschen.de> <5367B990.8050907@breisch.org> <20140505165723.GM30918@calimero.vinschen.de> <5367DEE5.5010407@breisch.org> <5367EA1F.3060800@cygwin.com> <5368094E.7040806@breisch.org> <53680C04.6050609@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: <53680C04.6050609@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-q2/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 Now I get why these people⃰⁽¹⁾ have so much of an issue with top posting. From this⃰⁽²⁾, I can see they are really thinking of and expecting email to look like a chat-log or irc-transcript. They don't realize that some people use email to write documents that include historical data for context. But like most good sources, will put the historical context information at the end in an appendix. Now if we can just get the bottom-posters to realize that by posting the footnotes, historical data, and duplicate info at the top of the document, they are more likely to lose the reader who is only scanning the first half the page. ...(;^/) )... ---Endnotes--- ⃰⁽¹⁾ - Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Larry _____________________________________________________________________ ⃰⁽²⁾: A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?