[asterisk-users] Top Posting

[Ron Wheeler]

I participate in a lot of lists and top posting is now the norm since 
people want to see quickly if the message is worth reading.
If the poster wants to intersperse comments in the following text, they 
announce that at the top so readers know to look further down.
Modern e-mail programs make it easy to figure out the history if you 
were not following the discussion closely.

Ron
On 29/12/2012 10:02 PM, Logan Bibby wrote:
>
> I suppose I'm one of the few people that remember the content of 
> threads by subject and easily catch up...
>
> I'm also on my phone 99% of the time time and the way Gmail lays out 
> emails makes top-posting beneficial to me.
>
> On Dec 29, 2012 8:57 PM, "Richard Kenner" <kenner at gnat.com 
> <mailto:kenner at gnat.com>> wrote:
>
>     > I realize the benefits of bottom-posting, especially when posting
>     > inline. But top-posting keeps things in reverse chronological order
>     > so any reader could catch up quickly on any missed messages in the
>     > chain. A new reader scrolls to the bottom and reads up.
>
>     What's there to "catch up with" if you don't first read what the
>     person
>     is replying to?  Do you think that everybody remembers every thread.
>     Of what value is it to see something like "No, that didn't work."
>     *before*
>     a description of what it was that didn't work.
>
>     When people reply to an email, it's their responsibility, whether they
>     top-post or bottom-post to remove unnecessary old message and keep
>     just
>     what's necessary to understand the email.
>
>     One of the problems with top-posting is that it makes it easier to
>     forget
>     to do this.
>
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