[wplug] A question of etiquette

[Michael P. O Connor]

I normaly do top post, I figure it this way, most people now look at the
top of the email for what you say, very few look inline or at the
bottom.  I have had people respond to emails where I have done inline
posts asking why I did not include any text.  I feel that I am going to
do what most people are going to expect, and most people on the net now
look at the top, very few look at the bottom or inline, and when I feel
the need to do inline responce I will post at the top that the ansers
are inline, most end users, most people you are going to write to
(unless you only write to geeks) are going to look at the top of your
message and if it is not there, they will assume there is not text from you.

> 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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> 
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