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From: CBFalconer on 20 Apr 2008 06:11 kony wrote: > <usenet(a)amolad.org.uk> wrote: > .... snip ... >> >> I would not normally leap to the defence of top-posting. But if >> AE says it saves him valuable time I have no reason to disbelieve >> him. > > We could reasonably argue that the amount of time he has spend > defending his position is a larger amount of time than the sum of > all the time, in his lifetime, that would be taken pressing the > <Page Down> key a time or two (just prior to having to use all the > other keyboard keys a few hundred times to type out replies. However don't forget the necessary (but too often omitted) time to mark and delete the majority (irrelevant portion) of the quote with the delete key. This is popularly known as 'intelligent snipping'. -- [mail]: Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net) [page]: <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net> Try the download section. ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
From: Andrew Smallshaw on 20 Apr 2008 16:48
On 2008-04-20, kony <spam(a)spam.com> wrote: > On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:31:38 +0100, thoss ><usenet(a)amolad.org.uk> wrote: >>At 16:07:08 on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 John Beardmore opined:- >> >>>I doubt it saves you much time, and it may waste the time of your >>>readers. >>> >>I would not normally leap to the defence of top-posting. But if AE says >>it saves him valuable time I have no reason to disbelieve him. > > We could reasonably argue that the amount of time he has > spend defending his position is a larger amount of time than > the sum of all the time, in his lifetime, that would be > taken pressing the <Page Down> key a time or two (just prior > to having to use all the other keyboard keys a few hundred > times to type out replies. I agree with this. It isn't merely a question of a few extra keystrokes. It is part of the overall writing process to get your post into a form suitable for distribution. The vast majority of worthwhile posts take a measurable amount of time to prepare. Sure, you have a few that you can answer off the top of your head with a one line response, but in my experience the vast majority either require checking something up or a detailed explanation of issues raised, which in turn requires a little time in order to present your thoughts in a coherent manner. If we say that the average response takes even 5-10 minutes to compose (and some posts take far longer) then the time taken to scroll down to the bottom (if your newsreader does not do this for you) and/or trim any unneeded quotation is insignificant in comparision. Indeed, after expending the effort of writing your post it seems natural to me to want to display the result of that effort in the best possible manner. In short, the "it saves me time" argument only ever holds water for very quick and possibly ill-considered or poorly developed responses. Those tend to be low quality posts to begin with. -- Andrew Smallshaw andrews(a)sdf.lonestar.org |