On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Marc Simpson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >> (I have been asked to refrain from bottom posting on J forums, but >> I'll make an exception for people that use that format.) > > Oh, I didn't realise that was the convention; I'll bottom post to keep > things consistent.
Here's the request, by the way: http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/2011-May/034524.html The reasons that stand out, in memory, from the wikipedia entry as it was then, are: 1. top posting retains context that gets lost in bottom posting 2. newer devices that handle email are optimized for top-posting and reading and writing bottom posted content in them can be difficult. I am not sure about the validity of point 1 -- if context were desirable, the references in the email header and the forum archive can give access to context (though additional steps -- for example finding message by their id and converting from message ids/references to urls -- could get software support). But point 2 seems compelling, to me. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
