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

[King, Steven]

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
+1 734 821 1461
www.arbornetworks.com



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