On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 09:52:23AM +1000, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > For a long time, mutters have fought battles and wars to get everybody > to bottom post. It makes a lot of sense, but we have lost every battle > and every war.
In a work related environment, top-posting is more common and even encouraged; it makes sense as sometimes you need to reconstruct the whole, pristine chain of communication (for audit reasons, to forward to a third party, etc.). That, I feel, explains the proneness of many users to top-post. > I now only bottom to emails on this list. I also never ever see bottom > posting in all the hundreds of emails I get every week, other than > posts to the mutt lists. Bottom-posting on mailing-lists is still a battle worthy of being fought. I don't nudge anyone (I do when their email is HTML-only), but I keep bottom posting on MLs: trimming+BP saves reading time and is clearer. I hope/expect newcomers to pick out the habit by experiencing how easier it is to navigate a bottom-posted thread.
