From: Viaduct Productions <lists@...>
Date: 2011-10-06T23:39:34+09:00
Subject: Re: How to output an instance's type

Or ask.  The easiest way as you put it, in other lists, didn't work.  Most people post how they want.  

My point is that top-posting is a natural way of doing it.  I quote the previous person and add my stuff on top.  I'm not excluding your post, I'm putting it down below.  One thing I don't like about bottom posting is the need to scroll down all the stuff I've already read in the thread, to see what is new.  

An old argument, just trying to see what preferences are, and how hard it's encouraged.  

Cheers


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Rich in Toronto

On 2011-10-06, at 10:34 AM, Adam Prescott wrote:

> The simple answer to finding out what the list wants: lurk.
> 
> If you want my preference: trim quotes and bottom-/inline-post. Consider the
> situation where someone makes 3 complex points. Compare the extra effort to
> all future readers to piece together what's being responded to, compared to
> a one-off cost of making it clear what is being responded to.
> 
> It's not about making people re-read quoted text. The quoted text is a
> marker. Anyone who already read it gets their memory jogged and can refer
> back to it easily (if necessary, compared to navigating back through N
> previous replies). Anyone who hasn't read it gets to see what's being
> discussed.