[wplug] A question of etiquette

[Vanco, Don]

It's easier to put on slippers than it is to carpet the world.

Don

>-----Original Message-----
>From: wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org 
>[mailto:wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org] On 
>Behalf Of Brandon Kuczenski
>Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 11:39 PM
>To: WPLUG
>Subject: [wplug] A question of etiquette
>
>
>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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