I'm totally on the side of top-posting. The only justification I've heard for bottom-feeding is the vacuous observation that a first time reader of a thread has to read all the way down to find out what's been said. Duh. A first time reader has to do that anyway. An existing reader familiar with the thread can see "what's new" immediately rather than slogging all the way down to find only 'me too'. Once you've joined a thread, you're now an existing reader.
And BTW, finding the beginning of a bottom post is not necessarily trivial. You may have to scroll up and down for a while to locate it. Top posting puts the beginning at the top where it's obvious. . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 1:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: GMail vs. COBOL I get dozens of business e-mails a day and no one, no one in the business community bottom-posts. If find it to be a quaint listserve oddity. So flame me. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Gord Tomlin Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 4:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: GMail vs. COBOL On 2016-08-18 15:25, Bill Woodger wrote: > Gord, other than sounding slightly risque, I have no idea what bottom-posting > may mean. Bottom-posting is placing your reply at the bottom of the message, as I did here. Top-posting is placing your reply at the top of the message, as you did with yours. There is a standard that declares bottom-posting to be correct, and top-posting to be incorrect. Personally, I hate bottom-posting, but the majority here seem to be in favor of it, so I comply. I don't bottom-post except on listservs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
