I agree with some of your points and disagree with others. On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 at 14:04, Ken Strauss <ken.stra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > IMHO bottom posting shows utter disdain for the reader who is forced to scroll > through many lines that he has already read. Of course bottom posting is great > for the reader who is too lazy to closely follow a thread and wants their > memory refreshed with each new posting. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Erik Christiansen [mailto:dva...@internode.on.net] > > Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2019 11:55 PM > > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Posting order > > > > On 31.03.19 11:17, John Dammeyer wrote: > > > > > > > A: No. > > > > Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? > > > > > > > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > > > > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > > > > A: Top-posting. > > > > Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? > > > > > > > Couldn't agree more. This ancient wisdom encourages consideration for > > the reader - and so may admittedly seem strange in this century. In-line > > replies, like this one, add a reply to a context. A top post is an > > answer without a question or context - good for skipping as impenetrable > > ass-backwards nonsense, IME. > > > > Or ... is it the custom in some quarters to read from the bottom up? > > It's the only thing which makes top posting intelligible, one has to > > admit. > > > > ... > > > > > If you are reading a once a week email of all the postings on a > > > subject then I can see wanting them all in order from top to bottom. > > > But otherwise it costs far more in concentration and time. > > > > You're too generous there, I think. Catching up on a week'sน mail right > > now, there's nothing more useless than fullquoting, before or after. > > A considerate poster chops out the stuff he's not answering, leaving a > > "..." to indicate there's someone else's input left out of this part of > > the discussion. The shorter the quoted text, the better. It is after all, > > repetition of list traffic, and unnecessary verbiage to read through is > > an unkind theft of other people's time. > > > > Erik > > > > น It's not that I read a digest, it's just that I've been out on the farm > > for a week. With threading, there's overall context from preceding posts, > > so it is a kindness to readers to quote only the sentences to be replied > > to, and to reply after the relevant question/proposition/opinion. Thus > > the reply has intelligibility through context. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
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