On 09/16/2010 02:34 PM, Tod Hansmann wrote: > A good rule of thumb might be that if you're talking to open source > purists or linux users from a previous era, trim and bottom post. For > mixed audiences or just modern email users, they tend to keep track of > their email conversations better with a top-posting environment for > whatever reason (the speculation of which is less important than the > fact that it is so).
I have noticed that in environments where face contact is frequent (employment and family, for example), top posting makes more sense. In those contexts, it's almost always a bad thing to have a complex conversation over email, and top posting discourages everyone from having any sort of complex conversation. I haven't even met most of the developers I work with, so I'm glad there is a more sophisticated way to use email. Otherwise we'd hardly get anything done. ;-) Shane /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
