<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 33px;" class="">Warning —top posting also with interspersed comments.</span></div><span style="font-size: 33px;" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 33px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div>👍🏻 </span><span style="font-size: 28px;" class=""><— that’s a thumbs up</span><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 15, 2019, at 1:36 PM, <a href="mailto:bzs@theworld.com" class="">bzs@theworld.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">Re: Top Posting<br class=""><br class="">To me it depends on whether there's any chance the reader won't know<br class="">what precisely you're responding to in which case in-line is<br class="">warranted.<br class=""><br class="">I don't have any quoted text in this msg (is that top posting?), is<br class="">anyone lost?<br class=""><br class="">THE REAL REASON for my responding at all is because there are people<br class="">who lurk and sometimes manage lists who will react angrily, often in<br class="">private email (cowards! :-) ), to a top-post as if you violated some<br class="">inarguable rule and you maybe should be banned or at the very least<br class="">are very rude, similar in tone to if you'd spammed the list or<br class="">whatever.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div>I am appalled at the nastiness regarding posting prejudices.</div><div>"But, but, if your cognitive processes do not match mine, you are an idiot.”</div><div>“Why should I love my neighbor as myself? I am so much better"</div></blockquote><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">I just thought I'd point out it's just a formatting opinion, a<br class="">judgement call by whoever is responding, and nothing more, it's not<br class="">some rule everyone accepts so lose the self-righteous tone.<br class=""><br class="">If anything I suspect it might have to do with the MUA one uses.<br class=""><br class="">Maybe, at the very least, accept that the person who top-posted is<br class="">looking at a very different layout than you are, one where that<br class="">top-post looks just fine?<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div>And the viewer/replier may have significantly different cognitive skills.</div></blockquote><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">I use Emacs/VM for email. It's quite good at, for example, splitting<br class="">the screen so I can look ahead (or behind) in the message if I've lost<br class="">track of some context, or even opening multiple related msgs (even if<br class="">already filed) simultaneously to go back and review what's been said<br class="">already, or forward even to see if one is about to say something which<br class="">has already been adequately addressed.<br class=""><br class="">It's probably quite a bit different than the one-way upside-down<br class="">(date-wise) scrolling on some vendor-supplied smartphone app.<br class=""><br class="">I've used them when I've had nothing else and I haven't a clue how one<br class="">can do much else than essentially "more" thru the latest, silo'd, 10^9<br class="">spams interspersed with the occasional bit of ham 20 lines at a time<br class="">so I guess I can understand why some become desperate and angry to get<br class="">others to format their email for their convenience.<br class=""><br class="">Maybe your problem isn't the top-posting but your lousy MUA?<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div>Or, perhaps, attitude?</div></blockquote><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">-- <br class=""> -Barry Shein<br class=""><br class="">Software Tool & Die | <a href="mailto:bzs@TheWorld.com" class="">bzs@TheWorld.com</a> | <a href="http://www.TheWorld.com" class="">http://www.TheWorld.com</a><br class="">Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD<br class="">The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;"><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">James R. 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