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Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? )
From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:22:34 -0700
On 12/04/11 6:47 AM, William Herrin wrote:
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Tim Chown<tjc () ecs soton ac uk> wrote:But I'm afraid times have changed; bottom-posted email is now an annoyance to most just as a slow-loading web page would be.Then you're doing it wrong. You're supposed to trim the original down to just the context that clarifies your response. That's the other problem with top-posters... nobody trims, so if I want to understand what they're attempting to say I have to scroll down, read all the previous messages and then guess which part they're replying to. Usually the lazy top-poster hasn't said anything worth that much effort.
An even bigger problem is that the lazy top-poster often misses critical issues that either clarify the post they are replying to (making their reply irrelevant) or forgets to reply to something critical in the quoted text. I run into this often at $dayjob, where I can't ask more than one question in an email because the top-posted reply generally only addresses the first question.
The people who top post see this as a feature - they get their reply composed and sent off faster and can then move on to other things. They don't understand why they fail to thrive in their jobs as co-workers start to route discussions around them and then ultimately they are the first to be laid off because they aren't seen as an essential part of the team.
jc
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- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ), (continued)
- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ) Michael DeMan (Apr 11)
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- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ) Tim Chown (Apr 11)
- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ) Michael DeMan (Apr 12)
- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ) Mikael Abrahamsson (Apr 12)
- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ) gord (Apr 12)
- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ) D'Arcy J.M. Cain (Apr 12)
- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ) gord (Apr 12)
- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: AnySuggestions as to anAlternative? ) Michael Painter (Apr 12)
- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ) D'Arcy J.M. Cain (Apr 12)
- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ) William Herrin (Apr 12)
- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ) JC Dill (Apr 12)
- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ) Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 12)
- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ) Jay Ashworth (Apr 11)
- Re: Top-posting Daniel Staal (Apr 11)
- Re: Top-posting Jay Ashworth (Apr 11)
- Re: Top-posting bmanning (Apr 11)
- Re: Top-posting Owen DeLong (Apr 11)
- Re: Top-posting Richard Golodner (Apr 11)
- Re: Top-posting Bryan Fields (Apr 11)
- Re: Top-posting Bret Palsson (Apr 11)
- Re: Top-posting Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 11)