Sure, why not: email clients are decent enough to hide quoted sections anyway 👍
Heck, even my phone can read top-posts, and the rest of the folks (reddit, mostly) use https://externals.io/ anyway 🤷 Feel free to call me out for top-posting this 😛 On Mon, May 10, 2021, 23:52 Kamil Tekiela <tekiela...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Internals, > > Could we drop the bottom-posting rule? > > Almost all new contributors fall into this trap and reply to a thread by > top-posting, only to get chastised by someone else on the list. It's really > difficult to remember to delete the default reply. Mail clients don't make > it easy for us; it's hidden by default. Bottom-posting makes reading the > thread much more difficult too. The actual reply gets lost in between the > quoted content. I often get confused about what is new and what was > quoted. Many modern clients are designed to handle top-posting and don't > handle bottom-posting well. People are usually used to it and they read > from top to bottom. I don't know if in the past some mail clients defaulted > to bottom-posting but right now it just seems like an unnecessary > annoyance. > > If you want to quote someone then it makes sense to copy a part of the > message and then add a reply below, but forcing people to remove the > default reply from the mail client and then add the whole previous message > on top of your own reply isn't very productive. It wastes time and screen > space. > > Could we please change this rule or at least stop enforcing it? > Do people actually have mail clients that don't automatically hide the > previous conversation? If not, then I think we can let people top-post. > > Regards, > Kamil >
