On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 8:44 AM, Paul <tallp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> That concept is meaningful only email between two parties, where >> the >> quoted material is a "courtesy copy" for content the other party likely >> provided a week earlier (snail mail). >> >> But mailing lists/newsgroups are the equivalent of a bulletin board >> open to anyone walking past. Bottom posting (or better, trim and >> intersperse) allows someone who has no prior knowledge of the message chain >> to read it from top-down, picking up the relevant points as they go... >> Rather than having to flip through a stack of pages looking for information >> being referenced by the top-most sheet of paper. >> >> >> -- >> Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber > > > I've been using email for thirty years, including thousands of group emails > at many tech companies, and no one has ever suggested, let alone insisted > on, bottom posting. If someone's late to a thread they can read from it > the bottom up.
Remind me which direction text is usually written in English? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list