Nah..... Sometimes (like you), I put replies inline. And, I'm not sure that the "do as the romans do" is real. A few vocal bottom feeders^^^^^^^posters seem to want to force it on the others ;-) Long live choice - it's what OSS and Linux is supposed to be about. P. P.S. Please forgive me - I work for Google, and even they consider me strange. Jerry Houston wrote:
Paul Hands wrote:
I prefer top posting as I can see the most recent stuff first, and I don't have any problem with reverse ordering. I am quite happy either way as well, so I *don't* try to force my view on others.
You're right -- with respect to business email. And it makes sense to carry all the previous thread along with each message (which is what usually happens with top-posting). If a situation requires that someone new be brought into the conversation, simply Cc'ing them provides them with the whole history of the discussion. The wasted space is the company's wasted space, and they probably have IT policies to limit your mailbox storage to a reasonable size. Indeed, email clients like Outlook, that are primarily business-oriented, default to top-posting replies.
Public mailing lists are different. Here, we all have access to all of the previous messages. Nobody new is being introduced to a conversation, because we're all part of every conversation anyway, unless we choose not to be. In the case of a public mailing list, it makes sense to follow the internet conventions (especially if the list administration requests it), for all the reasons that those conventions were put in place. The wasted space is on somebody else's servers, and that's not playing nice.
At work, or in personal emails to friends, you should follow your own advice, and post wherever you like.
Here, though, you should consider yourself to be in Rome, and do as the Romans do.
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