On 2020-06-13, at 11:21:19, Charles Mills wrote: > > What is it with tech bulletin boards and the fuss about top-posting? > In some part tradition.
> I will bet I have gotten tens of thousands of business e-mail replies in my > life and every single one of them was "top-posted." > > What is it about tech bulletin boards where folks seem to want the most > relevant stuff -- the new stuff -- at the BOTTOM??? > It depends on what it's *relevant*to*. If I'm answering a ply with multiple questions, I intersperse answers, each after the relevant question. "See below" is silly -- See *which* below. > I *like* Outlook. > iOS Mail app previews the first couple *unquoted* lines. A brilliant convention, provided the sender can quote properly. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
