Just to be a devil's advocate... The advantage of top posting is that the new addition to the thread is obvious. With bottom posting, the new reply appears in the middle of the message, often with text both above and below it.
Probably because of the default behavior of many email clients, most email chains I see are top posted. This forum is the only place where I commonly see bottom posting. To quote from Wikipedia on the subject: "For a long time the traditional style was to post the answer below as much of the quoted original as was necessary to understand the reply (bottom or inline). Many years later, when email became widespread in business communication, it became a widespread practice to reply above the entire original and leave it (supposedly untouched) below the reply. While each online community <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_community> differs on which styles are appropriate or acceptable, within some communities the use of the "wrong" method risks being seen as a breach of netiquette <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette>, and can provoke vehement response from community regulars." Personally, I'm neutral. Either is fine with me. Will On 14 Jul 2023, at 19:17, Stan Brown <the_stan_br...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 6:50 AM Paul Feakins <p...@antropy.co.uk> > wrote: >> With a mailing list such as this, I believe the convention is to put >> replies at the bottom? On 2023-07-14 17:56, R Losey wrote: > Is there really a convention for replies? Gmail puts my replies at the top > by default (like this), but if they are supposed to be at the bottom, I can > pretty easily do that as well. But I haven't seen a FAQ or heard that this > is a convention. It is a long-standing convention, predating computers, that the response comes after the thing being responded to. (That's unless you're a contestant on Jeopardy, of course.) Without even considering everybody's _other_ email, there are multiple topics on the GC mailing list, and few people can keep all of that in their heads. Some brief context (usually _not_ a full quote of the article) is helpful before making one's response. To me it seems like basic courtesy for the writer to consider the convenience of the readers, who outnumber the writer manyfold. Stan Brown Tehachapi, CA, USA https://BrownMath.com _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
