Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 10:19:53 PM UTC+5:30, Walter Hughey wrote: > > I suppose what you mean by "top posting" is replying to an email by > > entering a reply at the top
That's right. Top-posting is wasteful of the reader's time while it also omits a lot of contextual information. > See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style > > Most people here prefer interleaved posting with significant trimming. It's worth pointing out that you will likely find the “interleaved posting with trimmed quotations” to be *acceptable* virtually everywhere on the internet. So it's a good practice to adopt for all such forums. > In other contexts eg corporates, often the culture is the opposite: > top-posting with strictly NO trimming. I've never found a corporation that objects to the sensible conversation-style, minimal-quotes-for-context interleaved posting style. > And one more suggestion: > Use text mode for your posts not html Yes, especially for technical forums where you'll need to frequently show *exactly* what text you mean, without unexpected rendering differences. -- \ “Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; | `\ those in philosophy only ridiculous.” —David Hume, _A Treatise | _o__) of Human Nature_, 1739 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
