On Tue, 20 May 2014 at 07:03:31AM +0100, Tim B wrote:
> Probably.
Sadly when you ask most top-poster why they do it, very few can
come up with a good or meaningfully reason to support their
behaviour. It appears to have mostly won because:
Most email clients encourage it
Most people copy what others do without thinking
Most people take the path of least resistance
While I accept that there are a few cases in which it's okay to
top post - I think the sheer volume of uneducated users has
eventually prevailed.
Sadly almost all non-technical business email is top-posted and it
is difficult to read, often incoherent and a great source of
confusion in business.
I've given up trying to bottom post - except when emailing other
technical users, as non-technical users appear to find it
confusing to have a trimmed and edited email with the answers to
their questions beneath the questions. Then again I was born
grumpy - but that does not make me wrong...
> Tim B.
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> From: Owain Clarke <simbobo@???>
> Date:20/05/2014 06:54 (GMT+00:00)
> To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List <hampshire@???>
> Subject: [Hampshire] Top posting
>
> I don't post to this list very often, but I am noticing a struggle
> between top-posters and bottom-posters, probably largely unnoticed to
> the top-posters. You even get posts in which answers are scattered
> below and above. I think you can't have both systems, and top posting
> has become the norm. The etiquette was that one should reply
> underneath, but haven't the top posters won?
>
> Owain
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