Bottom vs. Top Posting (WAS: A Plea for sanity when posting to this list.)

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 02:57:28PM -0400, Michael R Head wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 19:17 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
>
>> Top-posting can be used to set the tone of a reply, or convey general
>> points relating to the entire reply. 
>
>My question is this: if you're going to top post for this reason, why
>bother quoting at all (especially in a threaded forum that already
>contains the history)?

Beacuse I would like others to do that! You can of course make the
following assumptions about everybody who can/will contribute
constructively to the discussion:

 1. They keep all emails in all discussions they might be interested in.
 2. They use a mail client with good threading support.
 3. They are willing to go back in the discussion just to understand
    your post.

I prefer NOT to make those assumptions!

On top of that I would throw away emails unread if others make those
assumptions about me! Do unto others what you want done unto you (or
something like that). It's simple. I write emails that I wouldn't mind
reading myself!

/M

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