In support of my Prince Harry theory.

[Mike]

> > MD wrote:
> > <snip> 
> > For my personal taste having to scroll down through everything
> > I've already read to look for the new post --- it's been
> > explained to me but I still don't get the appeal.
> > 
> 
> Carol responded:
> I read the posts onlist rather than in my e-mail, which may be
> why I prefer bottom posting.
> <snip>

Mike:
I too read on-line. I would guess that a large percentage of our 
group reads on-line, though I have no actual numbers to back me up. 
But one can quite often tell when a post was written from webview 
versus sent in via email.

Not to pick on new Steve, but I'm going to use one of his posts as an 
example. You'll have to take the link below and put yourself in the 
shoes of us on-line readers:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/38289

Now, imagine you just read Steve's post and want to go to the next 
post in the thread. You have to scroll down to the bottom of his post 
where you'll find the rest of the posts in the thread. In this case, 
you have to scroll through a long bunch of junk that Steve left in to 
get to the next section. Disregarding the point about wondering to 
whom or what Steve is responding, this scrolling is very annoying to 
the on-line reader. If more people perform follow-on posting to 
Steve's the same way,... not hard to see how messy and unmanageable 
it would become to the on-line reader, does it?

BTW, I hit reply and spent a total of 2 minutes snipping, re-
formatting and even correcting a couple of typos in the previous 
posts before I began to write my response in this post. Because I 
snipped judiciously, you didn't have to scroll very far to get to my 
comments, did you? I don't think that's unreasonable to ask to make 
the experience of reading this list more friendly for all concerned.



> > MD wrote:
> > 
> > Oh well -- not my group, I'm just a guest... when in Rome.

Mike:
No Marc, you are a member just like the rest of us. It's all of ours 
group, yours just as much as the rest. The rules of this group were 
made long before I joined too. I don't find them that onerous. YMMV