[wplug] can we please agree on bottom posting?

Drew from Zhrodague drew at zhrodague.net
Fri Dec 16 14:50:51 EST 2005


> I actually was going to bring this up awhile back. But then I decided i would 
> look up the proper netiquette and just follow it myself. Never got around to 
> it though. We used to have a vision impaired member. I don't know if he is 
> still involved, it was some years ago. He did ask to either top or bottom 
> post because his email program would read all of the mail and I guess one was 
> better or worse than the other for him. As a reader I prefer top posting 
> myself. As a writer I prefer bottom posting. Course i always thought images 
> should be UUCPed into web pages as "src=" but then what do I know. ramble 
> ramble ramble

 	I recommend bottom-posting, and carriage returns to seperate 
blocks of text. It is funny how many people send so many emails, and it is 
hard to figure out who said what, and in response to what. Bottom posting, 
with line-prefixing, seems to me to be the best way to make an email 
clear.

 	Of course, top-posting shows the thread of communication, but 
bottom-posting shows the thread of thoughts. Then again, I did alot of 
BBSing here in Pittsburgh, and that's just how I learned.


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