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* Todd Suiter sez:
: People who top post actually bother you? Is the other way around for me, and
It's not so much the people but the traffic. Top-Posting usually means
Fullquote. Almost no top-poste I know bothers to shorten the content
below his own $0.01. That said, let's just assume 10 top-posters with
reasonably long texts in a row and you've got from 10 to 100 times more
traffic than botton-postings. Multiply this by 1000 mailing list
subscribers or some 10.000 Newsservers and you add quite some traffic to
the 'net.
Now let's just think for less than 3 seconds about the guys who make
Mailing Lists happen. These guys and gals do it - in most cases - out of
enthusiasm, paying bandwidth and server resources so _you_ can read and
post. Adding extra traffix to their tab does not strike me as social
behavior at all.
I always saw Top/Bottom as some kind of age- (netwise) and
clue-indicator, the former being a sure sign of less than 3 years of
netizenship. That might just be me and should not influence your
preferences, tho. Neither should the fact that in most European and
American cultures text is read from top to bottom, assuming timelines
and question/response pairs associated with the flow of information we
receive and process. Unless you're an avvid Jeopardy fan, you might see
my point here, I guess.
So, that makes three reasons not to Top-Post, one of which I consider
important. Just think about it, and then let's see how you like your new
life as a bottom-poster.
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