The Logic Off Topic list

Dennis Gunn wrote:
>  Top posting requires no effort at all on the part of the poster but
> places all responsibility of the figuring out what the poster is
> replying to on the reader.  Shoving the task of sorting out your
> thoughts onto the reader rather than simply laying them out clearly
> is pure laziness.

Agreed! As most members of the list can't possibly get through more than
10% of what is posted, quite often a response message is the first
contact with a thread. This means that they have to scroll down first,
then up to the response. That goes against the western convention, does
it not ?

In fact, the most economical way, to read this list, is to look at a
recent post, and get the gist of the preceding as well as the response.
If you find the subject matter sufficiently enthralling, then you can go
back over the thread to gather whatever other nuggets you may have
missed. But most times you don't need to.

> 
Colin Miller wote: 
>I have always seen top posting preferred in most news groups

 But news-readers show all threads in-line, and maintain nested threads.
So top posting does apply there, because the recipient is also seeing
the earlier posts above. This is an email list, not a news group. 


Top posting hurts my brain to read, nuff said ;-)


Dave Eager