Please turn your line wraps on at 72 columns, indent quoted material, and reply *above* the singature break. http://wiki.ursine.ca/Best_Online_Quoting_Habits
Francis Healy wrote: >> Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 07:43:05AM >> -0800, Francis Healy wrote: >>> Why is it that most mail clients default to a top post? When you hit >>> reply, There is a blank space where your cursor it, followed by ..... >>> wrote: and then the message you are replying to. >> >> Yes, quoted. What else should they do? My MUA can't read my mind >> to tell which quotes are irrelevant and should be deleted. >> > If top posting is realy the bane of everyone's existance that certian > voceriferous individuals claim it is, what is wrong with the mail client > putting the cursor at the at the botttom of the reply and letting you move > it up in the event you need to delete some irrelevant passage. English is read from top down, not from the bottom up. > When I read mailing lists, I generally am going through a series of > messages. I want to see the content of the current message first. If I > need to read the original post, I don't mind scrooling down. The rest of us that get more than a few messages a day don't want, and shouldn't have, to scroll down and piece together a contextual puzzle. Email and news is a form of public speaking. Part of public speaking is sticking to a format that your audience will listen to. http://wiki.ursine.ca/Best_Online_Quoting_Practices#But_within_my_.28very_limited.2C_closed.29_group_of_colleagues_or_friends_top_post_among_each_other_all_the_time.21 > I see the point of placing the respone within the prior post if you are > addressing a series of issues point by point, but I don't get all the bile > that is spewed in the direction of top posters. Then you don't get very much email. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
