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

Tue Mar 5 20:16:42 UTC 2013

On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 02:29:12PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> Main advantages of top-posting are as follows:
>     - You know what's on the top is new content.

How is that useful?  I have no idea what it refers to.

>     - 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.

Well they are in order, but it is in reverse.

>     - In Outlook, bottom-posting gets very messy very quick, even with
>       threading (aka. Conversation mode).

The times I have used outlook, it was never a problem to do proper
quoting and write my reply inline.

>     - Your boss/coworker most likely use Outlook.

Some do.  Their replies are generally impossible to follow because they
seem to assume colours are a valid way to indicate their comments mixed
in with the quoted message.

>     - Getting paid is better than trying to convert people.

Hasn't been a problem yet.  Quite a few develors around here use mutt
these days.

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