[Artemisia] Bottom-posting question (OOP)

[belladonna.difrancia at yahoo.com]

----- Original Message ----
From: yumitori <yumitori at gmail.com>
To: Kingdom of Artemisia mailing list <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 6:25:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Artemisia] the dreaded and horrible circlets...

And 
Therasia 
uses 
bottom 
posting, 
which 
too 
few 
people 
do 
on 
this
list, 
despite 
repeated 
requests 
by 
the 
long-tolerant 
list
administrator.

A: 
Because 
it 
messes 
up 
the 
order 
in 
which 
people 
normally 
read 
text.
Q: 
Why 
is 
top-posting 
such 
a 
bad 
thing?
A: 
Top-posting.
Q: 
What 
is 
the 
most 
annoying 
thing 
in 
e-mail?

Maybe 
it's 
time 
I 
start 
being 
less 
tolerant 
again...

-- 
Ron/yumitori


---- NEW MESSAGE! ----
From: belladonna <belladonna at yahoo.com>

I clearly see your points about bottom- vs. top-posting, dear list admin, but I have just a comment or two here--not in the way of argument, but possibly in the way of additional netiquette for the sake of easier comprehension. Way back when, in the early days of my email list participation, whenever I responded to a post, my nice email client would put a symbol (>) in front of all the quoted lines. Then it was easy for me to tell where quoted material ended and new material began. Nowadays, all the email clients I use seem to have become rather stupid. Sometimes they put a line next to quoted material, but sometimes my only clue that it is quoted material is the header at the top, like yours above. When people bottom-post in reply to such stuff, I can't always sort out where the quote ends and the reply begins, which is why I've come to prefer top-posting, personally. But it really WOULD be nice if information were in order. If we're all going to
 bottom-post, could we come up with some nice convention for indicating the transition? I tried one in this post.

*sigh* I miss the old days. The (>) made IN-posting much easier, too. Whose brainchild were the new email clients anyway?

Sincerely,
Belladonna




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