Re: [CAAN] Request for Hierarchical Category List

BoD wrote:
> Tom Bampton wrote:
> > "BoD" wrote :
> > > Some unknown person whose name got snipped wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Please don't top post.
> > >
> > > Why not ???
> >
> > Because it makes it harder to read the message. It reverses the
> > natural flow of conversation, requiring you to read the end before
> > the beginning.
> 
> You don't want to read the beginning (you already have read it in the
> previous message in the thread).

How can you be so sure about that?

* There are different ways to sort messages.
* Some people prefer not to "thread" the messages (e.g.
  they read in chronological order, or favourite authors
  first, or ...)
* Sometimes a message doesn't reach your server (or is
  removed from the server, or they can be in response to
  somebody you killfiled, ...).
* Servers get full and dump old messages. Sometime I only
  have access to 2-3 days' worth of messages in some groups.
  If I go away for a week the beginning of a thread may
  not be available to me.
* etc etc etc

> But you want to include it because it may be of importance as reference
> material. But less important than the new content, thus behind it.

When you reply to bits of posts (like I do now) top posting can really
mess up the context. Replies in chronological order don't suffer from
that problem.

You can't know how people will reply to your message.

> Anyway, I guess this conversation has already taken place many times, in
> many other places. My point is: don't tell people how they should format
> their text because this is really a question of taste, and subjective, and
> there is no "best" way.

There is the traditional way (clue: classics become classics for a
reason).


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