----- Original Message ----- From: "Amol Hatwar" rollacosta@phreaker.net To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] top-posting
Saswata wrote:
Top Posting, per se, (I believe) is not a bad idea, specially when the
has only one point or topic. But ofcourse, in a mailing list, it would
then
be necessary to delete all un-necessary parts of the quoted text
*chop*
IMHO, top posting is a disease! However, top-posting is acceptable to many people because they have traditional sets of experiences where every official letter begets another one in reply.
But when one uses e-mail, it is easy to forget the basic fact regarding electronic text. Electronic text is editable! So it is not only logical
but
actually helpful to tuck in replies at the appropriate place. This accelerates comprehension. Another added benefit is that it becomes even more easy to have a look at the gist of the entire discussion.
Amol, The problem which I face, and I know a large number of others who do so too, is that if mails are not top-posted, in many cases, we have to actually search, peek and poke through the mail to find what new comments have been added. I suspect many of us have in fact missed a few important ideas in mails not top-posted.
I do try not to top post mails on ILUG, because most people here dont want it that way. But I still prefer top posted mails in most cases. I use "Interleaved" replies when I want to make a point to point reply. Else, I simply top post and then delete all things not required in the original mail.
regards Saswata