On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 14:20 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > The best that can be said about top-posting is that > it is better than bottom-posting without trimming. > Internal- and bottom-posting allow responses > to be near their inspirations.
Agreed, but in reality either method would be acceptable if it were used consistently and sensibly. Since bottom-posting has been the standard on Usenet for basically forever, it's also the standard for many technical lists including this one. That being the case, people who say they can't be bothered or that top-posting is what they are used to are simply out of line. If they want to propose a change to the guidelines, by all means propose it and make a cogent argument. In the meantime, follow the standard in the interests of clarity. > Also, top-posting strongly correlates with a failure to trim. > Rather a lot of the noise is quoted boilerplate. Very true. Top-posting is the default in a lot of Webmail systems and phone email clients. Also in Outlook I think (never used it). Almost every message you see on these systems quote the entire thread in every message. Lose lose lose. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
