[Techtalk] Top Posting (was firewire)

[iriXx]

my standard rant on top posting - beware and stick your fingers in your 
ears if you've heard this all before.


i hang out on a list where there is a visually impaired reader, who 
insists that we top-post because no matter how good the text-to-speech 
software, quoting tends to render emails into gibberish.

i used to be skeptical until my hand-tremor meant that i had to use 
speech recognition software, and i saw how appallingly bad the world of 
accessibility really is.


end of rant

m~

Carla Schroder wrote:
> OK, so where is the intelligent choice of responding to this post, where you 
> have mixed up top-and bottom-posting? And left in gobs of redundant sigs? (I 
> also posted a comment below.)
> 
> Did any of you who favor top-posting read the links that were given on the 
> topic?
> 
> On Tuesday 08 July 2003 7:12 pm, Staci wrote:
> 
>>I'm with you there.
>>keywords "at my option".
>>
>>Also:
>>Sometimes I glance at posts, think "okay that doesn't apply to me" and
>>delete. If you like to sift thru and read a bit, having top-posts is very
>>very handy, that way you can get a quick nutshell view of what people are
>>talking about, without reading the WHOLE thing, which may be a discussion
>>that has run from ..say, firewire, on to the new topic of top posting,
>>[potentially] without changing the subject-line.
>>
>>sl
>>
>>On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Rachel McConnell wrote:
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: techtalk-bounces at linuxchix.org
>>>[mailto:techtalk-bounces at linuxchix.org] On Behalf Of Carla Schroder
>>>[...] This particular custom is not arbitrary- it's about communicating
>>>clearly.
>>>[...]
>>>
>>>we will have to agree to disagree.  I prefer top posting, as i LIKE
>>>having the whole context of a conversation available to me at my option.
>>>
>>>rachel
>>>
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> 
> 
> Another nice thing about bottom-posting is the person's sig follows in a 
> logical place.
> 
> Bottom line for me is, I read and pay attention to posts that are laid out 
> logically and are easy to follow. If it's all convoluted, like this example, 
> I'll probably not spend a lot of time trying to decipher it.
> 


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