Bottom-posting may be "correct" in some people's opinion, but look at it this way. How do 99% of the email users in the US reply to emails? Top posting.
If almost everyone does top posting (for whatever reason, whether it be good or bad) then isn't top posting not only "acceptable" but basically the standard? I think so. It's like the English language. American English is very different from British English or Australian English. Is their's correct? Is our's correct? The answer is that you speak English the way it is spoken in your country. Likewise, email etiquette is decided by mass adoption. Whatever the masses standardize on become the standard. Chris On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:38 AM, John F. Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com> wrote: > > See comments below. > > -------Original Email------- > Subject :Re: [nlug] top posting - bottom posting > From :mailto:cri...@basesys.com > Date :Mon Jun 07 06:40:14 America/Chicago 2010 > > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> > Alright here it is again. >> > >> > I have been criticized by an e-mail correspondent for bottom posting. > > >> Top posting is something that is done by the lazy formatter and by email >> apps that cater to those same people. > > On the BlackBerry Storm, which I am using, bottom-posting requires the use of > an incredibly-slow third-party app. I had to hold the backspace key down for > about four minutes in order to delete 20 or so lines of quoted material that > I didn't want. Plus, the BlackBerry has a hard-coded limit on the size of > messages, so, an overly-long message will be truncated. With bottom-posted > messages, this can mean never seeing the response. > > On the other hand, I bottom-post when replying from my netbook, since I use > Thunderbird as a mail client. > > > > -- > John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com > "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to > think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
