Re: Top Posting/Bottom Posting or Whatever

Lighten up, who cares anyway, we are all friends in here and if the odd
mistook is made.......
well hell, there are worse things to worry about.............. n'est pas???

(puttinginmytwoppenceworthingly)

BonkersJulia
OOF+



"Brian Matthews" <noonecares@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I can live with top posting too, if that's the way the thread has been
going. But when you have 3 or 4 responses all bottom posted and then
someone comes in with a top post, it can be irritating.

On Tue, 12 May 2009 16:55:12 -0700, elle <elle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Oh my gosh it's the top/bottom posting thing again. This is, like, the
eighteen-gazillionth time, now.

I don't care enough to argue endlessly but don't mind stating my
preference and my rationale and what I do for others to consider.

I usually top post because I personally find it tedious to have to
scroll in the message window until I find the new text. Unless I'm
really very interested in a post, I will skip a post as soon as I see
that it has old text at the top. Life is too short to spend a lot of
time scrolling.

So I post at the top, and leave the original post at the bottom as
reference. I don't need it to read like a conversation, but I
appreciate that old text is there in case there's a need to check it.

That is all. I know there will be anger and mayhem on this subject
shortly. If you post it at the top, I might even read it.

hugs (and ducks behind Mike),

elle
9y
9,000,000,000 top posts.



If a post is really short, I might bottom post.

FlatIronMike wrote:
Ian posted in another thread on how to respond to a prior post s one
that will never be resolved here or in any other NG I've ever seen. I
personally delete the prior message unless I feel that a clip of what
was written will help make my response make more sense. I personally
find it hard to find responses inserted into the middle of a post and
nothing is worse than a bottom response to a post that is LONG. Seems
most of the time, those folk usually only say 'me too' which really
could have been posted on it's own.

That's my 3-cent opinion but I bit each of us have our own reasons why
we post/respond the way we do and will 'spain it here until this
thread tops 100 responses.

//ducks

FlatironMike
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