On 31.03.19 11:17, John Dammeyer wrote: > > > A: No. > > Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? > > > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > > A: Top-posting. > > Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? >
Couldn't agree more. This ancient wisdom encourages consideration for the reader - and so may admittedly seem strange in this century. In-line replies, like this one, add a reply to a context. A top post is an answer without a question or context - good for skipping as impenetrable ass-backwards nonsense, IME. Or ... is it the custom in some quarters to read from the bottom up? It's the only thing which makes top posting intelligible, one has to admit. ... > If you are reading a once a week email of all the postings on a > subject then I can see wanting them all in order from top to bottom. > But otherwise it costs far more in concentration and time. You're too generous there, I think. Catching up on a week's¹ mail right now, there's nothing more useless than fullquoting, before or after. A considerate poster chops out the stuff he's not answering, leaving a "..." to indicate there's someone else's input left out of this part of the discussion. The shorter the quoted text, the better. It is after all, repetition of list traffic, and unnecessary verbiage to read through is an unkind theft of other people's time. Erik ¹ It's not that I read a digest, it's just that I've been out on the farm for a week. With threading, there's overall context from preceding posts, so it is a kindness to readers to quote only the sentences to be replied to, and to reply after the relevant question/proposition/opinion. Thus the reply has intelligibility through context. _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
