On Tue, 20 May 2014 at 07:03:31AM +0100, Tim B wrote: > Probably. Sadly when you ask most top-poster why they do it, very few can come up with a good or meaningfully reason to support their behaviour. It appears to have mostly won because:
Most email clients encourage it Most people copy what others do without thinking Most people take the path of least resistance While I accept that there are a few cases in which it's okay to top post - I think the sheer volume of uneducated users has eventually prevailed. Sadly almost all non-technical business email is top-posted and it is difficult to read, often incoherent and a great source of confusion in business. I've given up trying to bottom post - except when emailing other technical users, as non-technical users appear to find it confusing to have a trimmed and edited email with the answers to their questions beneath the questions. Then again I was born grumpy - but that does not make me wrong... > Tim B. > > > Sent from Samsung Mobile > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Owain Clarke <simb...@cooptel.net> > Date:20/05/2014 06:54 (GMT+00:00) > To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List <hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk> > Subject: [Hampshire] Top posting > > I don't post to this list very often, but I am noticing a struggle > between top-posters and bottom-posters, probably largely unnoticed to > the top-posters. You even get posts in which answers are scattered > below and above. I think you can't have both systems, and top posting > has become the norm. The etiquette was that one should reply > underneath, but haven't the top posters won? > > Owain > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- -- Adam Trickett Overton, HANTS, UK No virus was found in this outgoing message as I didn't bother looking. -- anon -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
