More likes someone makes ten points in fifteen minutes and someone respond without anyone knowing which point he's responding to.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Tom Brennan [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 2:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Quote style Tom's opinion: Top posting is like a meeting where one person talks, everybody hears it, and the conversation continues without having to explain the whole meeting each time. When someone new comes along though, it would be nice to have a chronological history of what happened before - that's bottom posting. And that includes archiving when the "someone new" might be reading the conversation years later. I like top posting because most of my work is real-time conversations. If someone really wants bottom posting to catch up or for whatever reason, then it doesn't seem too hard for them to make a script or find a program to reverse the order of the conversation locally. I do that manually every once in a while when someone at work says, "Tom, can you go through this month-long email thread and try to help?" Ouch. So the first thing I do is start with a notepad window open and make notes from the bottom up, not only reversing the email string, but also trying to weed out only what I really need to better understand the issue. Now I sometimes do a combination like Curtis just did, where I'll include portions of the original email and make comments underneath each portion. I'll usually do that by top posting with a copy/paste of just the part I'm referencing. I rarely do the "See my response in red/green/blue below" intermixed in the entire original email. When people do that to me, I often have trouble finding that one little red word somewhere in the pile. On 6/13/2020 10:21 AM, Charles Mills wrote: > What is it with tech bulletin boards and the fuss about top-posting? 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??? > > I *like* Outlook. > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 9:54 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Quote style (was: ... Passive FTP ... ) > > On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 13:17:11 +0000, Jackson, Rob wrote: > >> My cruddy email application (Outlook) doesn't do the >-style quoting (or at >> least I don't know how to make it), so let me try below with tabs; it will >> probably be ugly. >> > Does First Horizon require you to use Outlook? I mostly post from the > LISTSERV Web interface. > > Does it enforce top-posting? Does it prohibit editing quoted text, heaps > of legal disclaimers and all? > >> First Horizon Bank >> Mainframe Technical Support > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
