[tde-users] Re: [users] Mailing list etiquette [meta] top posting?

On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 01:00:56PM +0900, Michele Calgaro via tde-users

Whoa there, let's not toss out the bathwater with the baby! *wink* **Bottom** posting? Probably none, or very little, unless the email you are replying to is very short (a handful of lines, no more). But **inline** posting, which is often wrongly called bottom posting, has the advantages of: - reading like the conversation it is; - and keeping the necessary context in place. Especially in technical discussions, it is natural and useful to follow a Question: Answer format. Answer... And the follow-up answer goes here. So much better than either top-posting or bottom-posting, that invariably ends up with half the questions ignored. If my readers have to scroll to read my first (or only comment), then the chances are that I have left too much quoting in place. If they have to scroll long enough that they get bored, frustrated or annoyed, then I definitely have left too much quoting. And if I have left ten pages of quoting only to respond with a single line "Me too!!!" then I need somebody to turn my computer off and never let me online again *wink* (You know how many TV shows start off with a very, very brief summary of "the story so far" showing highlights of previous episodes? Imagine if, instead, you had 42 minutes recapping the previous episodes followed by three minutes of new material.) Quoting should ideally be just enough to establish context, not to be a full archive of the complete thread to that point. And this is why I keep asking people to not post at the bottom of the untrimmed post. That combines the disadvantages of top-posting with extra disadvantages and no advantages for the reader at all.