On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 at 06:31, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-01-29 at 17:59 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > > On Thu, 2021-01-28 at 16:49 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: [...] > > Or, put another way, there's a very good reason why the long- > > established way to participate in a mailing list is quote the salient > > bits of the prior email and directly reply to individual sentences or > > paragraphs right underneath them. So that readers know what answers go > > with which questions. > > > > It's called interspersed replies. > Many people's first email user agent is MS Outlook which encourages top posting by opening a blank section above the quoted message. When Outlook was introduced at work I had to put a line at the top: "See responses below" or people would think I had made an empty reply. > > > > It's NOT called bottom posting, which is merely the opposite of top > > posting, where someone replies in one great slab below (bottom) or > > above (top) the post. Either way is not helpful to understanding a > > message. > > Well put. This HyperKitty brokenness of not quoting in replies is > becoming a real annoyance. IMHO the only potential advantage in having > a web-based interface to the mailing list is if it encourages people to > respect the same conventions, which some webmail users seem to have > trouble with judging by the amount of top-posting we see. Otherwise > what's the point? > People tend to follow patterns established in their early training. In forums for cross-platform applications there are now reports that a command-line program "doesn't work" because nothing happens when the user clicks on the program in the file browser as well as people asking how to add the programs to menus. -- George N. White III
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