On 2018-05-08 07:38 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 07/05/18 07:14 PM, I. Ivanov wrote:
Is it an European practice not to top post?
No.
It is how it always "used to be" before such things as GMail
I don't "completely" agree about GMail (because I have observed the
practice before that). But thank you any way...
I deal with quite a bit of email and everyone (that I have worked with in North
America) top posts when they reply to email.
I've been dealing with Email since the start of the 1980s and this pernicious
effect is very, very recent.
Most of us consider it, at the very least, impolite.
I understand - I did feel like this when I was in Europe (and started
email about the same time as you). Again - it is not the practice in
North America - I had to adapt myself. Meanwhile my friends in Europe
"bottom post" all the time.
It is actually extremely rare when people reply "in line".
That is a canard.
Most of the professional semi-professional lists I'm on do make a point of
replies that FOCUS on the material. In a longer post you often have to address
multiple items and "in line" is the only way to keep it coherent. After all.,
most people don't write using numbered tags on their paragraphs to which you can
specifically respond.
If I understand correctly - you are under impression that I am trying to
mislead you intentionally. This is not the case. I can use either (and
have found uses for both - in line and to posting). Again - what I
observe is that the majority of correspondence that I deal with is top
posting. This is on both professional and personal level.
To be precise - I am talking about "email correspondence".
So we have TWO issues here.
The first is politeness.
The second is clarity of communications.
A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?
I want to thank everybody that participated. I understand there are
people very passionate about one method vs. another. What I wanted to
gather (and also convey) is that:
- how we write / respond to the list affects the readers (and the
responses we have back). We may want to keep this in mind.
- top posting is not right or wrong. It is just different. Some are okay
with it others not. It is not disrespectful. It is just what the writer
believes is best.
I think there is enough information on the thread :-)
We can surely move forward to a much more interesting topic - Darktable!
Regards,
B
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