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

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:

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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 +1 734 821 1461 www.arbornetworks.com

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