top and bottom posting

Wade Smart wadesmart at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 21:07:57 UTC 2009


This is the wrong place to talk about this but I will say this:
If everyone did the same thing - top or bottom - its easier to read.
Gmail (which Im on right now) only does top. Thunderbird, which I usually
use, does either. Most people go with whatever the default is.


Wade

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 15:59, Jay Daniels <tux at myt60.net> wrote:
> It seems the reason that people want you to bottom post is because most
> people bottom post and if one person post at top it breaks the
> question/answer methodology of the chicken and egg problem.
>
> Now what if "everybody" top posted.  I think it would be much easier to
> read assuming you are reading the list from a news reader or an emailer
> that just marked read mail and not actually delete it until it's old.
> Of course, trying to get everybody to do the same thing would still be a
> problem.
>
> If that was the case and everybody agreed, what would be wrong top
> posting, if anything?
>
>
>
> jay
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