On Saturday 13 August 2005 1:18 am, Michael Honeyfield wrote: [snip]
I agree. Top posting hasn't become the "norm," as far as I can tell. Intelligent users who've been on the Net. for awhile know better, and common sense SHOULD tell the others to bottom post. There are a number of newsgroups and elists that mandate it, and should.
Fred
Don't blame the user. In some case a user might be posting from Outlook or some other Win32 application that does not do bottom posting correctly. Also, a user may not have a choice in the app being used, like some work enviroments.
MOST mailers can be setup to bottom post by default.
This debate comes up often on our local LUGs mailing list.
'Almost "everywhere" now and then. I'm on one list where it's not the "rule" of the list, but a number of us who are frequent posters ignore top posted mail. All list members were given the reasons for bottom posting and given plenty of time to get used to it. A few are stubborn 'Bloze users who now don't get answers to questions by those who could help them, but they're beginning to "get the idea." ;) The biggest reason we have taken this approach is that most of us simply have too much to do in addition to reading mail, and don't have time to jump all over a long post to follow the conversation. And, since it's NOT normal to read from the bottom to the top, we don't.
Personaly, following suite is the best thing to do. If the thread is bottom posted, then post at the bottom.
'Only way to do it. ;) Fred -- Planet Earth - a subsidiary of Microsoft. We have no bugs in our software, Never! We do have undocumented added features, that you will find amusing, at no added cost to you, at this time.