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[Jason Chandler <canthus13@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bah. I might just start middle-posting backwards in protest.

--Jason

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Jonathan Buckley <itsafork@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  seriously guys, i understand what jay is saying & trying to get at (& by
> the way, jay, saturday morning when i pick you up, i'm going to smack you
> for all of this), but if we are all participating in a conversation/
> email-thread, then we are, very likely, going to be pretty on top of what is
> going on. therefore, unless you are wanting the entire world to follow the
> discussion (i.e. a website/forum), top-posting is by far the most efficient.
> so i suggest, for email conversations, we simply use top-posting.
>
> thoughts?!?!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From*: Rick Ucker <rick.ucker@xxxxxxxxx<Rick%20Ucker%20%3crick.ucker@xxxxxxxxx%3e>
> >
> *To*: Ubuntu Ohio LoCo Team <ubuntu-us-ohio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<Ubuntu%20Ohio%20LoCo%20Team%20%3cubuntu-us-ohio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx%3e>
> >
> *Subject*: Re: [Ubuntu-us-ohio] (no subject)
> *Date*: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:12:53 -0400
>
> I'm with Brian on this one. Scrolling/paging through the entire thread to
> get to the new message each time is a pain. It makes sense to me to read the
> reply first, referring to the previous messages below it if I need some
> context.
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Brian Freytag <brifreytag@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> At work, we get e-mails that are 10-15 e-mails deep. If I had to
> scroll to the bottom every time just to see the reply, I'd stab myself
> in the face with a soldering iron.
>
> If you can't remember what happened in your e-mail conversation, I'd
> rather have to scroll down to figure that out than to just get the new
> stuff.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Jay Sullivan <notfed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Douglas Stanley
> > <doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Just thought I'd share my thoughts, I really don't like "bottom"
> >> posting. I hate scrolling through an
> >> email trying to decipher where some one answered my questions... I
> >> generally remember what
> >> had been said, I just want to see the response right away, front and
> center.
> >>
> >> So ban me if you will, but I'm a top poster :)
> >>
> >> Doug
> >> President, Top Posters Anonymous
> >>
> > I don't really find myself scrolling all that often. Attached is a
> > word document with more details.
> > --
> > Jay Sullivan
> >
>
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