Re: Top posting

Thanks for the reply, I hoped I was not alone on that :-).

The one argument I won't buy is, "It's Tradition."

Same here, this is about communication, not about
practicing religion. Nothing against those who practice
anything as long as they don't demand that I join,
that is.

I find it funny that, at age 48, I have to spend so much time telling people
20 years younger than me to move with the times.

Well I would expect a youth like yoursef to be progressive (I am
two years older but I guess I don't live up to the expectation
of being a traditionalist, either...). :-) :-)

Cheers,

Dimiter

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I have dealt with the issue by adopting a mixture of both.
...
I am replying in such detail because I am not quite
sure myself about my adopted method, I'd be curious to get
some thoughs on that.

I like it. I, too, alternate between top, bottom, and interleaved posting
as the situation seems to require.

I am not going to cater for people who are still running 1978 UNIX on 1975
DECwriters instead of computers with full-screen threaded news reading. (Or
who pretend they are.) The fact is, some replies are best interleaved; I
view bottom posting (which I'm doing right now) as a special case of
interleaving; but if the reply is short and snappy and doesn't require much
context, why not give it right at the top?

The one argument I won't buy is, "It's Tradition." This is high technology,
folks, not Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe! We should always be ready to adapt our
techniques to the changing situation.

I find it funny that, at age 48, I have to spend so much time telling people
20 years younger than me to move with the times. Among computerniks there
is tremendous nostalgia for 1975-1985, the period when geeks were viewed as
superhuman.

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