Re: How do YOU read midrange-l?

[Tom Liotta <qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Pluta wrote:
> > From: CRPence
> >
> >    I agree with Vern.  I dislike bottom posting [quoted text above
> > reply].
>
> I, on the other hand, prefer bottom posting.  But that's because a high
> percentage of posts I read I find via Google as opposed to an email feed, so
> I likely didn't just read the previous post.  I find it a lot easier to be
> able to read a response in context by going top to bottom.

That's much like the point I tried to make. Reading posts as they 
arrive in e-mail or through news is only part of it all. It can be 
very different when searching Midrange archives or reviewing Google 
(or other) archives.

With all due respect to Chuck (a LOT of respect), I suspect that he 
has less need for searching archives than some of the rest of us. 
Unfortunately for me, I often look through old stuff trying to find 
some tidbit that I barely remember seeing someone mention. Often, 
the results pages have dozens of hits that are worthless simply 
because of the untrimmed baggage.

When you have little need for searching, you have little need to 
care. But if I see my time taken up when I do it, I try to remember 
that others can have the same troubles.

Tom Liotta