[wplug] A question of etiquette

[Darius Cardren]

Hmm I'm not sure, I usually post on the top, but I also use the quick
reply feature in gmail more than not anymore....

On 6/1/05, Brandon Kuczenski <brandon at 301south.net> wrote:
> I have been noticing a trend on the various technical and non-technical
> mailing lists to which I am subscribed, and I'm curious as to what WPLUG
> folk think.
> 
> I was "raised" on the idea that top-posting, meaning putting the text of
> your response to a posting ABOVE the text to which the response was
> directed, was *bad*.  The idea being that when reading the mail
> (presumably on a console), one would want to see the context of the email
> in chronological order, so that he or she may best formulate a reply.
> However, I have noticed that practically nobody in my other mailing lists
> does this, and people have even requested that I cease my 'bottom posting'
> because they can't find my responses to their emails, that they must go
> "burrowing" throughout the body of the email [text-only, of course,
> rendered in a non-fixed-width font], free-email-provider headers intact
> and all, in order to figure out which part of it they had written, and
> which had come from me.
> 
> Even in discussions with my professors, or with other technically minded
> people, I've noticed a mixture of 'top-posting' and 'bottom-posting'.
> Perhaps the orthodoxy of the issue has ceased to be relevant.
> 
> I suppose, what I am really interested in, is the amount of 'evangelism'
> the open-source community wants to be involved with vis-a-vis top-posting.
> Is it even important at all?
> 
> Just curious about list opinions.
> 
> Regards,
> Brandon
> 
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