Dear Bob of Donelson Trophy Please find my comments interspersed below: (this is the stanza I use for noobs)
On 21.09.2015 14:03, Bob of Donelson Trophy wrote: > First, my only comment on top posting. > > Here in the states most email clients default to top posting. Therefore, > if I set my defaults to bottom post (as requested but not mandatory by > all mailing list I participate in) my US customers (who, grant you, are > NOT logical and think email should be in bottom post, logical order) > reply to my emails with "your email response was empty" or "You didn't > answer my question" and then I would need to explain to all of my > customers where my answer is (at the bottom, where, yes, I think, > logically it should be.) I cannot redirect the masses to bottom post, > sorry. I, like you, have to live with top posts occasionally, sorry. You are not supposed to bottom post, either. The idea behind the whole eMail rule is to have a dialogue, to allow a reader who is subscribed to a couple of mailing lists to be able to follow the conversation without digging through a 2000+ line email you have to read *bottom up* if she/he wants to understand the context. > > We mailing list normal users, although annoyed with top posting, can > learn to follow the combination of top posts with bottom posts and keep > up with answers. One could, but I have other emails to read, my boss does not pay me for reading eMails and I don't have the time to dig through the mess top posters produce. Result: Your eMail most probably will be ignored by a majority of the participants of a tech related mailing list. Not what you aim at, I suppose. With kind regards Stefan Peter -- Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced. ~ Gregory Benford ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
