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

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!)