- From: Gian Sampson-Wild (PurpleTop) <gian@purpletop.com.au>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 02:18:55 +1000
- To: "'John M Slatin'" <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>, "'Chris Ridpath'" <chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca>, "'Joe Clark'" <joeclark@joeclark.org>, "'WAI-GL'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
I have always found top-posting more useful than any other kind of formatting, often because I know already what the comments are about (from the subject line and reading previous emails) and don't want to have to search through the text to determine what is new content and what is not. And, as is indicated just by looking at the emails regarding this subject, the alternatives to top-posting is varied: some people are using the > (greater than signs), some are inserting text (Jane Smith says), some people are snipping previous comments and putting their comments throughout. At least with top-posting the format is consistent - and therefore much easier to interpret. And if there is confusion as to what comments are about, it is always possible to scroll down to find what the comments were in response to. Thus I find that deleting all preceding emails (as I have done here and was recommended in a previous post) is not at all useful. Cheers, Gian
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