Car-ac-systems

[John Timney (MVP)]

"Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch" <bj_666 at gmx.net> wrote in message 
news:5ko2rjF4om2bU1 at mid.uni-berlin.de...
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:42:53 +0000, Zentrader wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>> What is it about "please do not top-post" that you have difficulty
>> understanding? Or do "MVP"s feel that their time is so much more
>> valuable than anyone else's that they are free to ignore the norms?
>>
>> Who made this the norm?
>
> Common sense and (western) reading habits.
>
>> In my travels through web-land, it appears to be the opposite.
>
> You must travel strange territories.  ;-)
>
>> Don't waste space repeating everything in every post, and it wastes
>> everyone's time by have to go over the same thing again and again.
>
> That's why you trim the quoted part to the minimum to understand what one
> is answering.  Top posting and full quoting wastes time for people who
> want to see the context because context and answer are way apart and in 
> the
> wrong order so one has to scroll back and forth to keep track of the
> discussion.
>
> Ciao,
> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch


I like top posted threads, its my preferred response method - and actually 
also how I prefer to read a thread.  Normally, I and the thread followers 
are familiar with a threads context - and don't need to read down to get the 
context of a response.  Not much of a hardship really and just as I give my 
time freely in answering a thread - everyone else can chose freely to read 
it or ignore.

I don't though have no issues with people who chose to bottom post, or 
respond with the full thread if its relevent, or trim it.  If the answer is 
relevent, I'll gladly spend the time reading it from any direction.

Regards

John Timney (MVP)
http://www.johntimney.com
http://www.johntimney.com/blog