Bottom Posting (was In Support of My Prince Harry Theory)

[wildirishrose01us]

> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Teri Gardner" <malra@> 
wrote:
>  
> Teri:
> It's an alien posting style to me, to be honest, since I work at a 
law firm where absolutely 
> nobody does bottom posting, so I understand the resistence to it.  
At work, I need to see 
> the most recent message at the top because otherwise I have to 
sometimes scroll for 
> pages before I get to the meat of the post/instructions/ etc.  That 
can be really annoying.
> > 
> > I don't even use it normally in my usual correspondence but most 
of the other list 
> groups I'm on are very informal and are much smaller than these 
ones are.
> > 
> 
> Geoff:
> Curious, isn't it?
> 
> I belong to several groups where bottom posting is the 
> accepted norm.
> 
> Outside that, I find top posting alien. I do quite a lot of 
> emailing in connect with my church and, again, pretty well 
> everyone uses bottom posting.
> 
> To me it just seems logical to keep everything in chronological 
> order.
> 
> C'est la vie.

Marianne: I'm on a music list that posting is a free-for-all.  We 
have top posters, bottom posters, posts that appear in the middle of 
the original posts and answered per paragraph.  Most of the time the 
> are left in so a person can make some kind of sense as to where a 
new post is.

Subject lines start with one particular discussion and end up, 
sometimes a week later, with the same subject line but a totally 
different discussion or several different discussions going on at the 
same time. Most of the time there is no chronological order.  Some 
people trim their posts, but not very often.

If someone goes way too far in comments that are extremely insulting, 
bad taste, etc., then the MODS will step in.  Other than that 
anything goes.

The MODS/Elfs here would have a ball sending "Howlers" out on that 
list.  Sorry this is so long.

Marianne
A good friend will bail you out of jail.
A great friend will be sitting in the cell next to you saying
"Damn, we screwed up, but it was fun."
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