[Tfug] top/bottom and middle posting

[Matthew Patenaude]

On 2/17/09, Tyler Nienhouse <flakeparadigm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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



Actually, I mostly use gmail web mail and it generally hides most of
the quoted text, which you can tell it to show if you want to. However
it is not perfect.
Matthew
>> 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.
>