17 Jan
2021
17 Jan
'21
6:47 a.m.
On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 09:04:32PM -0800, Dan Youngquist via tde-users wrote:
Third post in full. My reply.
-- Inline posting --
My
reply.
Harder to describe than to do, unless you have a really awful mail
client like GMail or Outlook.
On 1/16/21 8:00 PM, Michele Calgaro via tde-users
wrote:
That's not bottom posting.
You're not posting your content at the *bottom* of the untrimmed, fully
quoted message you replied to. You're posting your content interleaved
between quoted text, like a good netizen.
-- Top posting --
My reply.
What are the advantages of bottom posting? I
can't fiugre them out to be
honest.
The advantage is, you can trim all but the relevant line or two to which
you're replying, and do that with multiple sentences/paragraphs if
necessary, replying to each right along with the text to which you're
replying, and have a nice neat post that's easy for anyyone to read and
follow. It even works well when it's helpful to include a couple layers of
quotes for continuity, as long as you trim what's not relevant. Third post in full.
> Second post in full.
> > First post in full.
-- Bottom posting --
First post in full.
Second post in full. Relevent parts of third post.
My reply.
Just enough
quoting to establish context.
Additional relevant parts of third post. Of course, it doesn't work when people don't
bother to trim anything, and
just add their 1 or 2 lines at the bottom of dozens and dozens of lines with
8 layers of completely irrelevant quotes, which makes it very difficult to read.
And *that* horror is bottom-posting.
--
Steve