David Abrahams writes:
At Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:09:43 -0800, Robert Ramey wrote:
I thought I was familiar with the guidelines and never remembered this.
I top-post all the time. It seems much more natural to me when it's not convenient to intersperse comments into the previous message. Why I like top posting:
a) It means that I don't have to scroll to the bottom of a message which is sometimes pretty long. b) To me it is more natural to follow the style of other communications (artilcle, books, etc) which make their point in the main text and refer to footnotes, bibliographies, etc at the end of the main text.
c) You don't confuse or even *upset* (as I've discovered the hard way) many people in the business world, where top-posting and overquoting is the accepted standard. Every message drags along the entire thread history with it, and you keep a record of everything by storing the final message. (yuck) It's a cultural thing, and Boost fits into the open-source programmer weenie culture much more than the business culture.
I was getting annoyed by some top-posting here recently, so I dug up this thread. Is an "open-source programmer weenie culture" like a nerdy culture? Anyway, please stop top posting and trim the old parts of the thread that are no longer needed. Brian Ebenezer Enterprises - In G-d we trust. http://webEbenezer.net