And then there is the problem that sometimes, quoted material gets
unquoted, or quote levels are removed and the sender didn't notice that
some of it effectively became unquoted and now appears as their own writing.
Will,
Your recent post below is a top post with a reference quote from Stan
which contains nested reference quotes from Paul & R Losey.
Unfortunately, Stan's reply appears as your own rather than a quote.
Now *that* is confusing and it takes mental bandwidth to sort out what
is the relevant new portion of this post.
(I'm not complaining, and I don't know how it happens each time, but it
is indeed a mess!)
Regards,
Adrien
On 7/14/23 8:33 PM, William Prescott wrote:
Just to be a devil's advocate...
The advantage of top posting is that the new addition to the thread is obvious.
With bottom posting, the new reply appears in the middle of the message, often
with text both above and below it.
Probably because of the default behavior of many email clients, most email
chains I see are top posted. This forum is the only place where I commonly see
bottom posting.
To quote from Wikipedia on the subject:
"For a long time the traditional style was to post the answer below as much of
the quoted original as was necessary to understand the reply (bottom or inline).
Many years later, when email became widespread in business communication, it became
a widespread practice to reply above the entire original and leave it (supposedly
untouched) below the reply.
While each online community <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_community> differs on which
styles are appropriate or acceptable, within some communities the use of the "wrong" method
risks being seen as a breach of netiquette <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette>, and can
provoke vehement response from community regulars."
Personally, I'm neutral. Either is fine with me.
Will
On 14 Jul 2023, at 19:17, Stan Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
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
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