[GTALUG] email etiquette.

[William Park]

If you're replying to the whole email, or need to maintain chronological
order (such as following up on your own post with "Oh, by the way..."),
then top post.  Like I'm doing here.

If you're replying to particular point(s) in the message, then just
after the point(s) in context.

Personally, I usually delete if I don't see poster's writing in first
screen.  Of course, with exception.  I know Hugh always bottom post, so
I hold off delete to 3rd screen.
-- 
William

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 04:02:34PM -0400, Alvin Starr wrote:
> 
> Hugh Redelmeier posted a message to the list about my posting replies at the
> top of messages.
> 
> We have had a bit of a discussion offline about this but Hugh suggested we
> take it back to the list and see what the feelings of others are.
> 
> My position is that posting at the top is most efficient and the easiest for
> the reader.
> As for clean up I agree that long email chains can become a pain specially
> when answers are posted at the bottom.
> I tend to clean up when the messages get to a couple of screens and replace
> the removed section with [snip].
> 
> 
> Hugh follows the ideas put forward in:
> 
> <http://www.idallen.com/topposting.html>
> 
> 
> What do others think?
> 
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