Why not do top posting, inline posting and bottom posting... oh that is what we do.
Top posting makes more sense to me when giving a general reply to the point just below and makes for faster reading. On 2/24/2013 7:52 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 24 February 2013 13:40, Roland Jollivet <roland.jolli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Top posting is great because it's the latest entry, and thus most relevant. >> News groups are about getting questions answered, and not long discourses I wonder what it is called when you split two quotes and post a point like this? >> aimed at late entrants. If someone picks up the thread months later, the >> onus should be on them to wade through the history to update themselves. > But wading through history in this mailing list is not necessarily > easy (this is _not_ a newsgroup, I spent several years reading > newsgroups, and inline posting was very much the accepted norm there > too) > Also, top-posting limits you to only addressing one point at a time, > it can be difficult to see what earlier point the reply is referring > to. For me inline posting makes more sense to post after the quoted point. > But this is probably one of those things that is never going to reach > a proper consensus, and is off-topic too. In the end everyone does what they like the best... Oh this is the bottom... got lost somehow. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
