Top Post vs Bottom Post (was: Fedora-18 -- how to install?)

[William Park]

Main advantages of top-posting are as follows:
    - You know what's on the top is new content.
    - You get the latest exchanges in chronological order, which can be
      trimmed if it gets too long.  This is useful if you need to print
      it on paper.
    - In Outlook, bottom-posting gets very messy very quick, even with
      threading (aka. Conversation mode).
    - Your boss/coworker most likely use Outlook.
    - Getting paid is better than trying to convert people.
-- 
William

On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:03:19AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 10:32:37AM -0500, William Park wrote:
> > Actually, top posting is useful when you're replying to the whole email,
> > containing disorganized rambling points spread over entire email body.
> > Also, top posting is better when you want to record of the entire
> > conversation.  You just have to know when to cut the quoting and start
> > afresh.
> 
> The entire conversation in reverse order.  It never has been very
> readable, and always becomes very unclear as soon as it is a reply to
> anything discussing multiple things.  How do you tell what parts you
> are replying to?
> 
> You can save the entire conversation by never deleting anything and just
> quoting every time.  That is readable, and maintains order, and makes
> it clear what you are replying to inline.
> 
> Of course most people don't want to have the entire conversation repeated
> in every email.
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