Evolution

[Thiers Botelho]

Well, I was going to bottom-post this one as suggested by one
gentleman who's given particular attention to this point. However -
and in partial disagreement with same gentleman - I feel that this
particular post requires intermingling text.

On 5/28/06, Bas van Gils <basvg at cs.ru.nl> wrote:

> On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 03:22:47PM -0400, Dave Scott wrote:

> > Thiers, I think you have the best viewpoint, even better than mine. I
> > like that: follow the house rules -- makes the most sense.

Thanks for the reassurance.

[snip]

> The good thing is that this topic is discussed frequently, especially when
> threads are long and people simply refuse to remove old parts from the
> discussion in their posts (which seems to happen more often when new replies
> are at the top).

And it seems that some mail systems / clients make it MUCH easier to
top-post, particularly on long threads (Gmail is an example). On
others, such as the dreaded Lotus Notes, bottom-posting becomes
outrightly ugly.

So that users of these systems might feel that they're going largely
out of their way when trying to comply with bottom-posting requests.

> In terms of netiquette I can highly recommend [1]. I frequently point my
> students in the direction also :-) In terms of "long threads" and such, a
> buddy recently pointed me to [2] which was a really interesting read.
>
>  Bas
>
> [1] http://www.albion.com/netiquette/
> [2] http://www.kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/thread_patterns.html

Very nice reading, both of them. And educative also.

Thiers