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Hi Bob,
Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 10:33:18 AM, you wrote:
BJ> I much prefer "topposting".
Just my opinion . . . top posting is fine, if everyone is using a
threaded reader, along with some other issues that should be
considered that I'll get to. But when there are 6, 9, 13 replies to a
topic coming in over 2, 3, 5 days, with few if anyone *trimming* so
that the message is less than 10 kb by then (in other words, long),
it becomes a real pain in the neck to follow the thread of the
conversation. It would also be easier to follow if everyone had an
e-mail client that properly time-stamped, and if everyone's clock was
set correctly. What a dream. ^_^
But the multiple replies are the worst. If everyone top posts, then
one must either sit by the computer and catch every message in order,
or, coming late to a thread, try and reconstruct the conversation
from the bottom up. This is a really tough task, because bear in
mind:
***Not *everyone* follows *either* convention: some top post, some
post in line. The result is a confusing mess.***
So anyone trying to follow a long thread is going to have to figure
it out in light of no convention, or rather two conventions that
anyone can pick and choose from at any time, and will. And top
posters (sorry, but anyone can *prove* this by a visit to the
archives) invariably *never* trim the Yahoo adds and messages from
between prior posts. They never get below the top line, where their
cursor appears when they hit 'reply', or at least they never get
below their sig line when they are in the editor window. It is simply
a PITA to follow long threads that are top *and* inline posted, and
not trimmed.
Top posting is easy to do, and for a short thread with abbreviated
content, not really a problem at all. But IMO it's the lazy way out
when the word count is long and the number of replies starts to pile
up. It used to be on many boards that the rule of thumb was: If you
can see the entire original thread and your reply on your screen
without scrolling, top posting is fine, otherwise post in line, but
preferably post in line anyway -- because there may be other replies
of course.
Personally, I think the whole problem would be a lot easier to deal
with if *everyone* was required to follow one of the conventions or
the other. I really don't care which; it's the inconsistency and
combination that makes reconstructing long conversations difficult as
much as anything else. But if top posting is to be the norm, I'd
really like to see some enforcement on cleanup, too.
All that said, there is little problem understanding a conversation,
ever, if people post in line comments. There isn't a news reader or
mail client I know of that doesn't handle this correctly. Even then,
some trimming would still be nice.
Bear in mind also, that this is an international list. Many members
are not native English speakers, including the list owner. Some
members have much more difficulty following along when snippets from
many different contributors to the same conversation are scattered
randomly up and down a page. It would be a nice courtesy to have
things in order at least.
Yuki (who trimmed a meter or so of Yahoo advertisements off *this*
reply before she sent it)
BJ> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Andrew Z <wizard@xxxx> wrote:
>> Marek Chlopek wrote:
>>
>> > On Sunday, 23 of January 2005 14:12, Group Moderator wrote:
>> > > A big thank you to everyone for making the effort
>> >
>> > William,
>> > I appreciate your involvement in moderating this group. One more task
>> > that
>> > would help scanning posts is to force everyone that starts new
BJ> thread to
>> > actually click on "new" button and not "reply" on randomly chosen old
>> > thread
>> > and then replacing a subject.
>>
>> I'd like to second this motion. I'm using Firefox, which supports
>> threaded messaging. Simply clicking on 'NEW' is not that hard a task
BJ> for
>> one looking to start a new thread. It helps keep threads in a nice,
>> orderly manner. :-)
>>
BJ> Another readability issue is agreeing to avoid topposting. The
BJ> current combined topposting and bottomposting, along with untrimmed
BJ> original posts, makes it impossible in many cases to retrieve info by
BJ> picking up a post a few messages into the thread. Can't do much about
BJ> the effects of posting through Yahoo board :/
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