Hi, > > Hi Andreas, > > Are you against top posting because you don't like it or is it because > this mail group has a rule against top posting? I ask this question
It's not this group in particular. Most technical mailing lists use bottom posting plus inline comments. This is the right thing to do for technical discussions going though multiple users who add their inputs at any point. Top posting is only reasonable for formal emails or those of little complexity. The fact the top posting forces every issue under discussion to be reintroduced for the sake of context, makes it much more likely that inaccurate/incomplete answers will appear. Top posting is very usual among Outlook users, because with Outlook it takes extra effort to bottom post correctly, when possible at all. From the Wikipedia article as of today: "this is caused by a bug present on most flavours of Microsoft Outlook where the quotation symbols are lost when replying in plain text to a message that was originaly sent in HTML/RTF, along with the fact the on the default Microsoft Outlook setup no quotation symbols are generated at all - this makes it very hard to distinguish between new and quoted text" Kmail on the other hand is excellent. It highlights the text based on the number of preceding quotation symbols (quotation level), making the old habbit of Outlook users of manually painting their text with a different color, a very funny one :-) I hope I was clear on this explanation. Best regards Gustavo > because Wikipedia doesn't say top posting is bad E-Mail etiquette. > See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting > > Howard > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus -- Angulo S?lido - Tecnologias de Informa??o http://angulosolido.pt
