On 07/07/2014 07:19 PM, Lew Wolfgang pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On 07/07/2014 03:53 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2014-07-08 00:35, Linda Walsh wrote:
Most people today display email on a GUI and TTY's are only emulated for console-related work. I don't know of ANY email reader that displays the last page of an email, by default, when you display it. This means that if the new content isn't on the first page, people have to move off of the message selection interface over to the reading interface to adjust it. Did you have to page down to see this reply? I guess not. >:-)
Nope, but then if I forgot what this was all about, I'd have to fish through eleventy-hundred previous emails, some of which might be deleted by now. As Linda says, editing/bottom-posting is fine for casual conversations,
No, it is needed for technical discussions to keep everything in perspective.
but when you need to preserve context and references as concisely and reliably as possible, you top-post. What does a bottom posted thread look like when you have to print it out for archival purposes, after all?
But be honest, how many times have you had to page down many times in order to see a one-lined bone-headed response in a bottom-posted missive? How many times have you started to page down and said to yourself, "Screw it, I've got better things to do!". I've done this many times myself...
Ah yes, hitting the PgDn key is so hard to do. This discussion has taken place many times on this list and I would venture a guess that it will comes up many more times. But, the default for this list is interleaved or bottom posting and has been this way since I joined the list in 1998. Perhaps you can start your own list with the etiquette the way you want it. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org