Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED], *, You got many answers concerning the technical aspects of top-bottom-inline answers. Apart of that, there ist another one..
A mailinglist is kept alive from two parts: people having questions _and_ people having answers. The latter ones often are lurking on several mailinglist reading hundreds of mails a day.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: >Hi vimmers: > >Slightly Off-topic, but I'm still wondering why bottom-posting is > prefered on Vim Mainling List. [..] >and I personally > feel top-posting much much easier to read than bottom-posting. ..if You are one _having_ questions that doesn't matter very much, as long as You are interested in getting good answers. ;o)) Aparently a wide range of those more experienced people get their work done more rapidly an efficiently if they are fed with well trimmed and structured inline answered mails. So your chance for getting a valid and useful answer is growing with the number of readers, which can get the point of Your question and the following discussion with a short view. If You _have_ good answers it's up to You, how to spit them out - they will be read however ;o)) >Is there any point (or historic reason) choosing bottom-post ? It seems to be some general experience for Mailinglist/Newsgroup traffic that things work better choosing inline answers. As far as I literally understand "bottom post" I am with You: I can't see any advantage putting the whole answer at the bottom of the mail. But perhaps as non native speaker I don't understand "bottom" well. btw. I join the voices that price the nice way people are discussing even that (off-)topic on this list. Vimmers seem to be a special kind of civilized people. :o)) -- Friedrich Schöne Grüße / best regards from south part of Germany
