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? >>
Personally I prefer in-line/interleaved posting. But bottom posting is okay. > 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. > I've added an item regarding this to the FAQ (with wikipedia link). http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Although top posting is not appropriate for Internet mailing lists, it is actually quite useful in a corporate environment as if a message is replied/forwarded to a new individual, then they have a transcript of all related information in the one message. ~mc _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
