Re: Why top posting is considered wrong?

192.168.0.1 wrote:

It doesn't make a sense to me!

Usenet is not one-on-one email.

open the front cover and begin reading there?
the back cover and end up at the front or do you
chapter one or do you start somewhere near
When reading a book, do you start at

If you top-post a reply to a message from several days ago, people will
still need to scroll down to see what you are replying to, then scroll
back up to read your response, because they will likely have forgotten
the original points, or need to refresh their memory. Especially for
someone who reads hundreds of posts every day.

They would also need to figure out or guess at which points you are
replying to, if the post is far along in a thread. Here's where good
inline posting is valuable.

Due to lack of trimming, TOFU was born.
Text Oben Fullquote Unten (German)
Text Over, Fullquote Under

And, if you don't quote anything, due to the nature of Usenet
propagation, the message you are replying to may not have made it to my
news-server yet, so if there is no quote, I won't know why you are
writing what you did.

And of course, *inline posting* is most desirable. With judicious
trimming.


--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer
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