On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Damm, Christer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Basically, top posting is a bad habit (and unfortunately > > promoted by GMail, which leads me to do it myself sometimes) > > of posting a reply with the text that you're replying to > > below the reply, so that one has to scroll to the bottom of > > the mail to even get an idea of what you're responding to. > > There are people out there promoting putting responses on the *bottom* > of the original email? Can someone point me to a site where they explain > why that is? I'm just curious because I keep cursing emails where people > make me scroll all the way to the bottom to see what they have to say. A > reply is a reply, so the person receiving the reply should already know > what was said in the original email (e.g., by using the Subject line). > If the person feels they need a refresher, they are free to scroll down > the page to previous information. Please help me out and enlighten me.
Top posting is common enough for personal e-mails, and in that case it's not as much a problem. But the practice has pretty much always been looked down on in newsgroups for as long as the internet's been around. Generally, having to scroll to the bottom shouldn't be a problem as long as the original message has been summarized and snipped to the relevant parts. This page seems to give a pretty good overview of the issue: http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html Erik --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
