TopPosting !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[John DeCarlo]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Avi Greenbury <
avismailinglistaccount at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:28:14 -0400
> "Danyelle Gragsone" <ladynikon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If you take 2 secs to look at the message you should be able to follow
> > a conversation.  It's like toilet seat up.. toilet seat down.. I don't
> > understand the problem.
>
> Much of the problem is that there is no standard - there are a lot of
> people top posting and a lot of people bottom posting. This makes for an odd
> vibrating sensation in the scrollwheel finger when reading deeply-quoted
> discussions.
> If we are going to agree on a standard, it makes sense (to myself at
> least) to go with the same one as we use in spoken word - that is where
> replies follow that which they are replying to.
>
> And I'll echo the previous response and point out that there's little
> point in replying unless you give some hint as to what you are replying to.
>

While I tend to prefer bottom posting, it is only useful when there is very
little text quoted.

If I can't see any unquoted lines right away, I delete it - mostly either
someone accidentally sent it out without a reply, or they were not being
polite enough to make their message readable.

Ideally, with proper threading, you would not need to quote the previous
message at all, making this a moot point.

And there are many threads where I could follow the whole thing without even
opening the messages if no one quoted (or everyone top-posted).  My email
client lets me see the first couple of lines without even opening the
message.

Finally, if there is interesting and complicated information, it should be
inline, not top or bottom, in a way that lets you see which parts the
responses belong to.

-- 
John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
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