[TxMt] Re: Mailing list reply direction & history standards question.

[Ed Wong]

Wow, are people really that sensitive about which direction their email replies flow? I feel like I've landed in Lilliput.

Ed 



On 2009-12-10, at 9:25 am, King, Steven wrote:

> On 9 Dec 2009, at 12:58, Jack Matier wrote:
> 
>> Do I form a reply at the bottom or the top?
> 
> 
> I don't know who originally wrote this piece of wisdom, but I found it at http://www.idallen.com/topposting.html: 
> 
>     A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
>     Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?
> 
>     A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>     Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?   
> 
>     A: The lost context.
>     Q: What makes top-posted replies harder to read than bottom-posted?
> 
>     A: Yes.
>     Q: Should I trim down the quoted part of an email to which I'm replying?
> 
> (And to Rob McBroom, thanks for the pointer to quotefixformac!)
> 
> -- 
> Steve King
> Sr. Software Engineer
> Arbor Networks
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