[Tfug] top/bottom and middle posting

[Tyler Nienhouse]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 18:25, Matthew Patenaude <mnglfiddle at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 2/17/09, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > ------------------------
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > --- 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
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > 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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What would be neat is if there were some email clients that were able to
find the replies in emails, and then show the email kind of like a forum
topic. Where you can sort it how you want.
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