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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Top-Posting, Vis-a-Vis Last Night's FussRe: Top-Posting, Vis-a-Vis Last Night's Fuss
From: James Teh <jamie_at_jantrid.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:52:21 +1000 Stuart Lawler wrote: > Top posting is far quicker and a far more efficient way for people with > Screen reading technology to read messages. I'm blind myself and I actually disagree. If messages are quoted properly, bottom posting is nice because you first read the text to which a person is replying and you then read the reply. Thus, context is established before the reply. If the reply includes enough information to establish context, quoting probably isn't required at all. However, this assumes proper quoting. quoting the entire message and then bottom posting is imho worse than top posting and quoting the entire message. Only the parts of the message that are absolutely necessary to establish context should be quoted, no more, no less. I have seen far too many people bottom posting who quote unnecessarily large portions of the original message which does make it harder for screen reader users. Jamie -- James Teh Email: jamie_at_jantrid.net WWW: http://www.jantrid.net/ MSN Messenger: jamie_at_jantrid.net Jabber: jteh_at_jabber.org Yahoo: jcs_tehReceived on 2007-08-28 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |