On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 05:58:05PM -0600, Leslie Turriff wrote:
Thank you for the lecture, but I was looking for useful information. My personal preference is to inter-post, but I know that others have different views. If a mailing list explicitly requests that their users top or bottom post, according to you I should violate their standards?
As you are doing now?
So, you prefer to interleave, you're on a mailing list that explicitly says not to top-post, and yet here you are, top-posting. I don't think you're in a good position to be snarky at my "lecture".
I never said that you should violate mailing list standards, that is you putting words into my mouth.
I have *never* come across any mailing list that requests that people post at the very bottom of the entire quoted email ("bottom posting"), but I have come across a lot of people who wrongly describe interleaved/ in-line posting as "bottom posting" when what they actually mean is to interleave responses. It's an easy mistake to make, since many replies will quote only a single block of text, and reply after that, which looks superficially like bottom-posting.
I'm sorry that my old version of Kmail and I were unable to provide you with the useful information you desired.