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

[Ansar Mohammed]

I can't believe that you guys are having this conversation.

It's not 1990. The majority of web, corporate and smartphone clients use
top posting.

Do you have any idea how frustrating it is to scroll down an entire email
thread that gets shifted bit by bit to the right on a smart phone?



On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 2:29 PM, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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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