Hello Robert, On Wednesday, October 20, 2004, Robert Pruitt wrote... >>> Thanks for your reply - sorry if I top posted - what is top >>> posting? (I'm probably being ignorant here to some degree...)
>> top-posting is where you put the complete text of your reply at the >> top of a reply message, out of context with the text of the message >> you are replying to. in-line replies on a point-by-point basis are >> not only more useful to the posters, but easier to read for others and >> helps jog the memory of ppl who are involved in too many threads to >> remember them all so intimately > That's one opinion. I, for one, like top posting. Who would want to > read through every previous post to get to the new one? Especially > true on a long thread. That's what trimming is for :) And I prefer to have the reply done inline. It makes more sense in context, for example, I ask you several questions, you stick all the answers above, it can sometimes get confusing. > I'd rather see the chain of events as they occur. And inline quoting doesn't give you that? > The ability to understand the current posting rests right below. > It's the beauty of top posting. I'm probably guessing your volume of email isn't as huge as some of us :) I used to not mind top posting until my mail volume went from about 50 a day, to nearly 1500 a day, then I found that the lists which enforced inline posts made my email reading very quick, I could keep with the thread even if I skipped over the main... and since then, my mail volume is now well over 7k emails a day, not including emails about services that I get from my monitoring applications, or publication requests from developers where I work. Top posting has a habit of inspiring over quoting emails. Some people have to pay for their bandwidth, or their dial-up services, etc etc. Inline quoting allows for a more conscious effort (without trying) to trim down emails, sticking your reply up top tends to make people dump all the email at the bottom, along with every other email on the thread too. They can very quickly escalate in size. > We all get stuck in our habits. That is not to say one habit is superior > to another. > Except that top posting is inherently better than bottom posting. haha... didn't you just say that you weren't going to do that? And isn't that a personal opinion? Before this thread goes any further off-topic, I think it can end here :) I've seen all the arguments about top posting, and inline posting before, many many times, on many many lists. I don't disagree that there are some times where top posting comes out on top (rare that it is), but we prefer inline, it works better :) -- Jonathan Angliss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Posting Hints: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/MailingListPostingGuidelines ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
