Sorry, but top bottom posting is bad etiquette because it is not prefered by most users.
Most users are using Windows, and probably most users of this list are using Windows also. Outlook and Outlook Express are the most used desktop email clients and they force the users to top post. I am blind and it is very annoying to need to jump over the old messages in order to read just a few bytes. I usually bottom post when I see a thread which uses bottom posting, because I assume that most users that follow that thread like to bottom post, and I am just one while they are more, so it is nice to make as the most users like. Unfortunately, when I follow a thread which uses the top-posting style, I forget sometimes to cut the last part of the message, because I don't remember if I use top posting or bottom posting. (I cannot see if there is a big text below my message, just a few lines, or nothing). The conclusion is that there are different preferences in choosing the posting style, and there is no "etiquette". I think the etiquette should say something that we should try to accept what other people prefer because fortunately... we are all different. Teddy Teddy ----- Original Message ----- From: "$Bill Luebkert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 16:14 PM Subject: Re: Top posting > R. S. van Keuren wrote: > > When a post starts to contain more than one previous message or pane, top > > posting is much easier to follow than bottom posting. With bottom posting, > > it's hard to find the most recent message. > > Bull. If you properly trim and intersperse your replies, you have the best > possible result. Look at all the crap you left in your post. We don't _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
