[Tfug] top/bottom and middle posting

[Matthew Patenaude]

On 2/17/09, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Something to consider - I use Yahoo webmail.  It is difficult to post to the
> bottom - take a look I added a comment on the bottom.
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> Keith Smith


Ok, contrary to my normal usage, I am bottom posting this message! But
to be honest, while I understand that if you haven't been following a
thread it is nice to start at the top and read down to get the
chronology, if you HAVE been following it, I find it rather annoying
to have scroll down through everything just to see the latest addition
to the saga.

While I understand regarding the IM chat notion, individual blurbs are
much shorter and you're much less likely to stretch a chat over days
or even weeks: I find the analogy less than convincing, no offense
intended.
So much for my two cents.

Matthew
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> --- On Mon, 2/16/09, Paul Lemmons <paul at lemmons.name> wrote:
> From: Paul Lemmons <paul at lemmons.name>
> Subject: [Tfug] top/bottom and middle posting
> To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
> Date: Monday, February 16, 2009, 5:22 PM
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> I am not a stickler for top or bottom posting but when there is a mix it
> makes
> posts almost impossible to follow. Netiquette dictates fairly bluntly that
> bottom posting is how one should reply to a post. While I recognize that
> almost
> every windows email program in the world top posts, it is not all that tough
> to
> scroll to the bottom to type in a response. This is a local group so we may
> have
> our own conventions but we really ought to have some consistent means of
> doing
> this. I vote for bottom posting because I think the Netiquette folks are
> right
> on this one. What do you all think?
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> BTW: I have seen this topic boil into a raging flame war. I really do not
> want
> that to happen here. It is not dogma it is convention.
>
> -- Sometimes I wonder.  Were our faith able to stand upright and look
> around,
> would it be looking down at the mustard seed or standing in awe of the
> height
> and breadth of it.
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> I added this comment here to demonstrate bottom posting with Yahoo webmail.
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