On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 13:36 +0800, Harish Pillay wrote: > Chris - > > > I have been in these two lists for quite some time now and I notice > > there is a lot of top posting in both lists. I want to suggest that we > > adopt (informally) a bottom-posting rule[1]. IMO, it makes reading and > > understanding an e-mail reply easier as we will know for sure what > > exactly is the person replying to. It is quite common in many other > > mailing lists to adopt bottom-posting, especially in high volume > > lists. It may take a little effort from list members and would perhaps > > put off beginning posters (that's why we should only adopt it > > informally), but I still think it's a good practice for the rest of > > the lists to adopt. > > > > What do you guys think? > > This is what we have always had on slugnet from way back when it > started in 1992 or so. We have maintained it as informal though. > > The problem is that a lot of people who got into using email were > not put through a formal email etiquette training and hence are not > aware of the nuances and best practices. And tools they used > (mostly MS stuff) did not encourage the proper bottom-post style. > > Serendipitously, I was just explaining email styles to my 10 and 8 > year olds and your email came in handy to show as an example. > > Harish
lol - now i'll have to start looking at how i can make my evolution bottom-post by default :P _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
