[ubuntu-uk] Top Posting

[Jacob Mansfield]

On 23 Nov 2011, at 09:55, Juan J. Martínez wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 09:45 +0000, Jon Reynolds wrote:
>> [...]
>> 
>> Do you make a point of bottom posting regardless of the recipient's style?
>> Or do you just stay 'bothered' inside but think 'what's the point' and
>> just top-post?
> 
> You're not alone :)

I think that if more email composers offered an option for this, people would be less bothered about it

> I personally hate when the original mail has three questions and the top
> poster answers them without any context... it's like: yes, don't know,
> tomorrow morning. Whaaat?

that's where interlaced replies like this come in handy

> 
> I don't try to convince anyone anymore, but I've found that it usually
> helps starting your reply with an "answering inline" note.
> 
> So basically I answer as I please, not matter if everybody else
> top-posts. Nobody has ever complain because the way I reply mail, but if
> ever happens... $DEITY helps them!
# echo $DEITY

#

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