This point is much more important, as quoted from the FreeBSD-chat mailing list.
----- 1. While top-posting is bad in the mailing list context, it is often necessary in the corporate context. It took me a while to appreciate this, but it's much easier for a secretary or a customer support person to look through the bottom of an email for *all* related correspondence than to dig through (possibly weeks-old or months-old) email. You may have quoted what *you* think is "relevant", but maybe you unknowingly omitted something important, or maybe you didn't but the reader wants to be sure of that too. If you quoted everything, you may as well top-post, rather than force your reader to wade through pages of old stuff before getting to your point. Most people are used to email in the corporate context and thus used to top-posting. ----- If you have worked in corporate environment (even if you are an Open Source company), you will appreciate that the trail from the reply of top-posted email, will help you to track the communication that has happen previously, very easily. I have never seen any Open Source mailing list to scold their user for top posting. If they do, they will lose their user very fast. Too picky, and too controlling. On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:48 PM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting > > "Partially because of Microsoft's influence, top-posting is very > common on mailing lists and in personal e-mail" > > 0_0 > > It is my concern since there's mailing list outside (not .MY) who's > the moderator is VERY CONCERN about top-bottom posting so, > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2004-August/002565.html > > "while top-posting is annoying for old-timers on > technical mailing lists, it's unfair to bash newcomers for it or to > write "Top posters will not be shown the honor of a reply"" > > > We don't want such thing to happens. > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan > <[email protected]> wrote: > > but you replied at top? > > > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:38 PM, saiful <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> like bottom > >> > >> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:33 PM, [email protected] > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I've hard time to use bottom posting especially when I use bottom > >>> posting but people replied with top posting, so the practice is kinda > >>> of useless. > >>> Which one you prefer, and should we enforce bottom posting here in > >>> OWASP-MY? > >>> Or reply as you wish. > >>> > >>> Thanks. > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Owasp-Malaysia mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-malaysia > >>> > >>> OWASP Malaysia Wiki > >>> http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Malaysia > >>> > >>> OWASP Malaysia Wiki Facebook > >>> > http://www.facebook.com/pages/OWASP-Malaysia-Local-Chapter/295989208420 > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> "When there are Thousand of People go against you and only one at your > >> side, trust me, I'm the one - akusaiful". > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Owasp-Malaysia mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-malaysia > >> > >> OWASP Malaysia Wiki > >> http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Malaysia > >> > >> OWASP Malaysia Wiki Facebook > >> http://www.facebook.com/pages/OWASP-Malaysia-Local-Chapter/295989208420 > > > > > > > > -- > > Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Owasp-Malaysia mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-malaysia > > > > OWASP Malaysia Wiki > > http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Malaysia > > > > OWASP Malaysia Wiki Facebook > > http://www.facebook.com/pages/OWASP-Malaysia-Local-Chapter/295989208420 > > > _______________________________________________ > Owasp-Malaysia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-malaysia > > OWASP Malaysia Wiki > http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Malaysia > > OWASP Malaysia Wiki Facebook > http://www.facebook.com/pages/OWASP-Malaysia-Local-Chapter/295989208420 > -- Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
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