Re: Bottom and Top Posting
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- Subject: [mg120748] Re: Bottom and Top Posting
- From: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 07:17:32 -0400 (EDT)
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Bottom posting has the advantage that the material is in chronological order, which is considered so important that some moderated groups require it. Other than custom, I don't know what other justification there is for it. But I much prefer reading top posted responses because the new material is immediately available in my reading pane, and if I'm interested in the topic I already know the history. Also, most good replies can practically stand by themselves without further reference. I don't have to scroll through extended material only to find some pro-forma response such as "Thanks!" at the bottom. Worse, with my clunky Outlook and McAfee anti-virus I don't have to wait for all the links to be checked before I can scroll to the bottom. I often just skip looking at bottom posted responses. If everything was top posted, then it too would have a chronological order, one that many might consider to be better. Even worse is interspersed posting, especially without any spaces. David Park djmpark at comcast.net http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/ From: Helen Read [mailto:readhpr at gmail.com] You might like to add a PlotLabel showing the coordinates. f[x_] := Sin[x]; pt = {0, 0}; LocatorPane[Dynamic[pt, (pt[[1]] = #[[1]]; pt[[2]] = f[#[[1]]]) &], Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 2 Pi}, PlotLabel -> Dynamic[pt]]] HPR P.S. -- Grumpy OT Aside: When did everyone in the world become top-posters? I'm finding it everywhere...newsgroups, email from family, friends, co-workers, basically everyone. For years I used to rearrange it back to traditional bottom-posting when replying to something that was top-posted, but top-posting has become so prevalent that I have given up. Did I miss the memo that top-posting is now preferred?
- References:
- Can a Locator be Made to Track a Curve?
- From: Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny@videotron.ca>
- Can a Locator be Made to Track a Curve?