> On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 6:50 AM Paul Feakins <[email protected]> > wrote: >> With a mailing list such as this, I believe the convention is to put >> replies at the bottom?
On 2023-07-14 17:56, R Losey wrote: > Is there really a convention for replies? Gmail puts my replies at the top > by default (like this), but if they are supposed to be at the bottom, I can > pretty easily do that as well. But I haven't seen a FAQ or heard that this > is a convention. It is a long-standing convention, predating computers, that the response comes after the thing being responded to. (That's unless you're a contestant on Jeopardy, of course.) Without even considering everybody's _other_ email, there are multiple topics on the GC mailing list, and few people can keep all of that in their heads. Some brief context (usually _not_ a full quote of the article) is helpful before making one's response. To me it seems like basic courtesy for the writer to consider the convenience of the readers, who outnumber the writer manyfold. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
