On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 09:52:23AM +1000, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > Posting to this list yesterday and a recent incident with my partner, > prompts me to raise the issue of bottom posting. 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. I now only bottom > post 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.
I don't think it's only mutters who do this. I participate in a bunch of mailing lists, and in the technical ones (essentially: Python, R, sqlite) people respect the bottom-post, trim reply, no HTML "classical" netiquette instructions. On others, people just top-post happily; on one of those lists, I checked yesterday out of curiosity, the last e-mail in a chain of replies contained one new line and the entire message was 45K in size. This [1] is 65K, in comparison. Gmail is quickly becoming Hotmail. Even on those lists, I bottom-post. I edit what I am replying to and answer paragraph by paragraph if necessary. I don't do it out of "this is how things should be done", but because I think it helps getting my point across. It's good writing. So far, nobody has complained. This I do with my personal e-mail. At the work, where everybody uses Outlook and top-posting is the norm, I just go with the flow. But the purposes of sending an e-mail there and sending an e-mail here are different. Cheers, [1] https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17192/pg17192.txt -- José María Mateos https://rinzewind.org/blog-es || https://rinzewind.org/blog-en
