From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-09-02T03:27:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Off topic: What is "top posting" ??

Charles O Nutter wrote:
> If
> everyone had a perfectly-threaded reader, that would work fine, as it does
> on well-threaded forums where quoting previous messages is usually optional
> and the UI handles visually organizing posts where appropriate.

No. This requires flipping between messages. This is slow to do and 
confusing - I'm probably not the only person that has problems reading 
two separate documents at once, related as they may be.

> The idea that every email should provide full
> context or even require partial context is asinine, and I have no pity for
> someone missing a message in the sequence. 

So, instead of the writer doing a digest of the context, you'd rather 
have all the readers do it. Uh-huh.

> Your flawed client is not my
> problem.
> 

Your lack of courtesy for your communication partners however is mine.

> My time is infinitely more important to me than yours.
> 

Yes. And everyone fails to care spending his time, infinitely more 
valuable than yours for him, to do what you can't be bothered to.

I call courtesy again. I realise that the time of others is infinitely 
valuable to them, and therefore follow what the generally preferred form 
is out of respect to them.

David Vallner