Hear, hear! (Or "me too" as Skip mooted.) Sent from my iPhone
> On Aug 18, 2016, at 17:40, Jesse 1 Robinson <jesse1.robin...@sce.com> wrote: > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
