Top Posting, was Re: ASR33 $1000+ And Counting...

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Feb 24 23:48:07 2005

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Marvin Johnston wrote:

> There must be others, but these will do for starters. I doubt I'll
> change many minds on this subject as it is more like a religious war
> than something based on reason. For myself, I consider it a workaround
> to bad posting habits :).

Actually, it'd be interesting to see what some user interface gurus and
human-computer interface types (i.e. people who study these issues in
depth, including the psychology, physics, physiology, etc.) would say
about this. From what little research I've done, I'll bet they'd say that
top posting is inefficient and confusing in general.

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