On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 07:49:40PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Top posting sends the message "I am so much more important than all > several hundred of you others on this list that I don't care how much of > your time I waste." > > Bottom posting says "I respect the others on this list and I will take a > little extra time to make sure I don't waste the time of all the hundreds > of others on this list."
I disagree. While bottom posting is appropriate for most public forums (because discussions on these forums generally involve a point-by-point debate), there is a valid use for top posting. In particular, if someone sends you a long email (and it is necessary and/or appropriate to quote the email or a large portion of it), then replying at the top saves the reader the time of scrolling to the bottom to find the reply. Generally, this situation arises in personal emails much more so than it does in public forums. BTW, why did this post show up in my inbox rather than in my mutt folder? My procmailrc searches for "^TO.*mutt-users", but mutt-users doesn't seem to be anywhere in the headers (unless I missed it somehow). What part of the header should I be filtering on? I also notice that neither list-reply nor group-reply works with the post I am responding to; I had to paste mutt-users into the Cc: line to reply to the list. Any ideas why? Thanks, Paul
