On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 11:08:34AM +0530, Lahar Appaiah wrote: > I find bottom posting a little .. dinosaur-ish. Corporate email has > effectively institutionalized top-posting, and the default now seems to be > to top-post for a general reply, and to reply inline for specific points. > I find it amusing how the bottom-posting brigade tries to claim that > top-posting is insensitive/ boorish/ uncultured/ etc. This is almost like > that other great concept, Mansplaining- something that is now thrown about > when you're convinced about your way being the only way (and is also used > more as a way to belittle others than for anything else). > > Anyway, lolz.
Lolz, bye. > On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Dave Long <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >>> OK, here goes. But why is not default? > >> > > > > The just-so story is so that one can show respect for a cultivated > > audience (or at least distinguish oneself from the uneducated) by making a > > little effort to bottom post, in the same way that one might make a little > > effort to use standard grammar and orthography, instead of typing whatever > > comes at hazard to the fingertips. > > > >
