top posting is better

Dan Lund situationalawareness at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 10:11:35 MST 2005


That is where message-trimming comes into play, and really is a
problem with both types of posting.  No orrogance involved, or
intended, by a particular form of posting.  The next message just gets
tacked onto the top, ready to be read at the click of a button.. with
cliff notes below it just in case you forgot what the thread was about
:-)

--Dan

On 10/27/05, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:

> inherent in every top post is the assumption that this statement will be
> the final statement to the topic which is a form of arrogance. A top
> posted reply to a top posted reply (etc.) often gets so far out of
> context that it makes it really hard to understand what has transpired.

--
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so
many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -
because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too
cowardly to exercise it.  The virtues which cloak these faults are
called patience and forbearance.
Friedrich Nietzsche


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