For me, bottom posting is not netiquette but a total pitta. It wastes time and effort in reading mail on the mail readers I use. It was originally used by the first text mode readers and seems to be mainly inertia, continued by the design of mainly text based based readers (pine/mutt and the like) for its continued use. With graphical readers like evolution and outlook, who position their cursor at the start of a message, its a real pain. So unless a topic is really interesting, or properly trimmed I solve the problem by "bottom post > /dev/null".
Of far more use is intelligent trimming. Far too many people dont correctly trim their mail which keeps both groups happy. If it fits on one screen, there's no reason both groups cant co-exist. Lastly, top/bottom posting is a religion so you are unlikely to change either groups opinion, but just cause angst. flames > /dev/null BillK On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 11:42 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Jonathan Nichols wrote: > > > I remember the days of "netiquette." I guess I'm a grizzled old Usenet > > hippie. :| > > No you're not - there's no excuse for not being polite and considerate of > others when posting. And that includes not top-posting and trimming your ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
