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Contrary to what some believe, the internet is not the exclusive property of the technically endowed. There are more of those "clueless people" out there (by an order of magnitude, or more) than there are techies and geeks. Whether each of us likes it or not, we are outnumbered. <BR>
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I quit worrying about top posting vs. bottom posting, especially since it seems that 90% of the people who want to bottom post can't (or won't) delete the superfluous duff, and then post an emoticon or a one word response, etc., at the bottom of a 100 line email thread.<BR>
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I spend 95% of my time on a computer dealing with people in a business environment, and this is the ONLY mailing list that anyone bottom posts on. I frankly am not going to waste my energy to change my whole thought pattern and habit to post on one list. Sorry.<BR>
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Dan<BR>
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On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 13:41 -0500, Robert Reese~ wrote:
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> the only time I personally bottom-post is if I'm replying in-line,
> and then I start with a top-post explaining what happening.
Yes, I've had to adopt that behavior too over the years as more and more
technically clueless people have left AOL and joined their comrades on the real
internet. I had to start because some people were too stupid or lazy to look
beyond the first post; apparently they thought the extra text left in the
message was just trash. Mind boggling.
R~
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