Top post, bottom post, interspersed --- it is all pretty much the same in the end for delivering and exchanging information.
But what REALLY makes a difference in effort for recipients and for following the thread is simply trimming the response--by hand, or allowing your favorite news reader or email client to do it. The need is especially notable if you review threads on Nabble archive--this thread for example: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Seeking-for-list-moderators-tp4053736.html Stuart From: felmon davis [moelmoel2...@gmail.com] on behalf of Felmon Davis [dav...@union.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 10:04 AM >On Wed, 8 May 2013, Dries Feys wrote: > >> All, >> >> Yes, I'm a top poster. Simply because I use gmail, and I don't want to >> click & scroll to the bottom of the message every time I respond to a >> message. But yes, I read everything in this thread, as it shows as >> bottom posting in my compose window. >> >> Sorry for the inconvenience... > >it is inconvenient but so is the way gmail sets things up; I think >some other email clients do the same. > >if I were using gmail, I also would probably top-post because it's one >degree of inconvenience against another. > >I think trying to _write_ bottom-posting when the email program >resists it is more difficult than trying to _read_ bottom-posting. > >(I'm not a dogmatist; I'm a pragmatist.) > >> Met vriendelijke groeten, Salutations distinguées, Kind Regards, > >mit herzlichen grüssen! > >F. > >-- >Felmon Davis -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
