I will even start the new thread so that we can calmly discuss the issue. I am of the opinion that I don't need to respond to a mailing list (like this one) while at work or out for dinner or whatever. Nothing has to be answered instantly on a list like this. In fact a lot of people subscribe to this via Digest and won't get it until tomorrow anyway. So what I do is quickly scan for EMERGENCY messages that can't wait a couple of hours and then answer them. So that involves a couple more minutes of my time to format the return email. Be it a Blackberry or an iPhone bottom posting is possible...it is just not the default.
Taken directly from Wikipedia: Top-posting is a natural consequence of the behavior of the "reply" function in most e-mail readers, such as Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Gmail, and others. Partially because of Microsoft's influence, top-posting is very common on mailing lists and in personal e-mail.[7][8][9][10] Objections to top-posting on newsgroups, as a rule, seem to come from persons who first went online in the earlier days of Usenet So if we as Mac users want to adopt Microsoft's way then ok...I guess. Early internet adopters like myself do not like top posting. It makes a thread difficult to follow. Even more trimming the text to just the relevant information is of great benefit. Especially to people with mobile devices. This forces us to download the whole email and fumble through it to figure out what people are talking about. Here are a couple of links that were just googled by me and were first page hits using the words "bottom posting" as the search words: http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists/etiquette#head-d58f0bbc f56aca2802844f797a8cd4805877fab6 http://www.dearcupertino.com/2008/12/top-posting-and-bottom-posting.html Having just attended the WWDC here in SF that was a huge outrage. It will be an option if not the default on the iPhone very soon. All the people that I spoke with about things like widgets and iPhone apps etc eventually got around how they HATE the fact that the iPhone top posts by default. Because it is considered impolite, in forums like this anyway. Your workplace may prefer top posting. That's great. Whatever. We here at LEM prefer bottom posting. Kyle Hansen -- This is the way the world ends...not with a bang, but a twitter. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
