dreadpiratepj: LOL

dreadpiratepj: “MY reply, is the important piece”

james: no, I am saying I am right, and bottom posters are wrong

james: well yeah, otherwise why write the damn email

dreadpiratepj: yours is not the only content, it’s a discussion

james: the other person’s reply is the most important part of HIS email, not MINE

dreadpiratepj: so if your reply is so important, have the forum to yourself

dreadpiratepj: I’m sure that will be soo entertaining

dreadpiratepj: neither piece has meaning without the other part, so that’s bullshit

dreadpiratepj: I’m referring to this “the other person’s reply is the most important part of HIS email, not MINE”

james: but it doesn’t work that way, in MY post, MY reply is the most important part, it doesn’t supercede the entire forum. the discrete set is my post, that’s all I control, and as such it is the most important part… ‘sides this doesn’t apply to to forums, ’cause I am outnumbered by the jackass bottom posters

dreadpiratepj: you are having A DISCUSSION, not a monologue

dreadpiratepj: both parts are equally important

dreadpiratepj: and it’s an open forum, not a one to one conversation in a private thread

james: yeah, but the other is there, if one cares to look

dreadpiratepj: therefore the WHOLE is important for everyone

james: yeah, but I’m not taking anything away, the whole is intact

dreadpiratepj: neither is the bottom poster

james: look, are we talking about forums or email?

dreadpiratepj: both, top posters and bottom posters, are not taking anything away

dreadpiratepj: I’m just giving you a hard time over the “MY part is the most important”

james: if the forum posts bottom, then I post bottom, like if in Puerto Rico I speak spanish, even though my first language is english… but in my email, I will top post because bottom posters drive me nuts

james: but it is

james: of MY email

dreadpiratepj: to you, yes, and to you that’s the end all of the discussion about top or bottom posting, therefore you are self-absorbed

james: I’m not saying that MY part is the most important part overall… just of MY email… like in a conversation, when I am speaking, MY words had better mean something, or I should just shut up

james: and vice versa

dreadpiratepj: OK, that’s true, but do you interrupt so you say it first?

james: huh?

dreadpiratepj: that’s what top posting is

dreadpiratepj: LOL

james: no, but the other person already said it

james: why parrot what he said and put it before mine?

james: I see it as a quick reference if one desires, not the purpose of the email

james: I suppose bottom posting does indeed happen in conversation though, like I repeat what you said to let you know I understand you, then say what I think about the subject… so i supposed there is precedence in verbal conversation… perhaps I have to rethink this

dreadpiratepj: actually, I think it was born out of people using unthreaded clients

dreadpiratepj: or changing their client setup to be unthreaded

dreadpiratepj: then they needed to quote context, and bottom posting was born

dreadpiratepj: or maybe they were just too lazy to refer to the previous posts

james: but still, I think bottom posting is distracting. Reply: Your post should contain the reply first, then maybe whatever i was replying too. The subject defines the subject of the email, and the subject is what I am writing, not what was written before

james: and subject comes first. it comes first in a book, chapter, paragraph, sentence… it always comes first

james: ah, laziness

james: the primordial soup or all invention