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well I top posted here a few years back and was throughly told off. So when replying to lug stuff I bottom post. However if I do this (bottom post) with friends, family, business associates I often get a mail back asking why have I returned their post with out saying anything! On occasion I have mentioned to people there is a top v bottom post debate. The result is increduality. Hilarity even! So mostly I'll keep to the norm (in forums does the latest post come to the top of page one or the bottom of page five hundred and fifty?), but we are out of step with most of humanity and though it would be nice to blame this on the demons of microsoft I think it has more to do with what people instinctively think is right (even if logically wrong). Actually I thinl BP is a pain. People often don't delete stuff and if I'm following a thread I know what it's about. So to scroll 3 pages and find the respondent has written "I agree" is not great. Also if TP one either knows what has gone before or can check in the posts below. If BP and edited one sees Pete Bloggs wrote << I think << I agree John Smith means I have to read the entite thread rather than one mail. A pain... So maybe a a paradigm shift is called for... On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 20:52 +0000, Grant Sewell wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:19:33 +0000 (GMT) > baslake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > > > Posted by "Barry Ayres" <baslake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > hi lugs, > > > > is it me or is it a pain in the ---- to keep scrolling up and > > down to find the latest addition to a post, is it a good idea to > > all bottom post ? (or top) ? > > > > dont give me a hard time,, just a sugestion, :) > > > > > > > > bas. > > I usually bottom-post, unless replying from my phone (Palm Pre) - it's > quite hard to bottom-post with its mail interface. > > Grant. > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html