Re: What use is OCP ?

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk wrote:
>
> I agree with Mike.
>
> If the topic is of interest, then anyone following the thread will be
> prepared to go back and read earlier posts in their 'clean' version.

Well, take it to its more logical conclusion. Just don't cite anything if you are going to top post. Let the reader go back and read for context if needed. (Somehow I don't think this would make sense, but it really is what one should do with the top-post argument)

> More significantly, perhaps, do we have to have entire postings copied
> for the sake of a one-line addition. If there is a point to be made,
> a couple of judicious cuts would probably highlight the issue in
> question much more effectively than copying an entire stream with its
> (inevitably) messed up multiple layers of indents.

As Jonathan says, the mantra should be trim your posts. Top or Bottom doesn't matter if all you do is cite the whole frigg'n thing.

The problem with top posting is that it doesn't allow for intermingling a reply, as I've done here.

-- 
Galen deForest Boyer
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.