[PLUG] Top-Posting

Mike Connors mconnors1 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 11 01:08:00 UTC 2008


Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Rogan Creswick wrote:
>
>   
>> I imagine it will be a good long while before *any* email client will
>> know where to put your cursor when you start a reply ;)
>>     
>
>    They all put the cursor at the upper left corner. The issue is that too
> many folks just start typing there and don't make the effort to trim cruft,
> isolate portions of the original message to which they want to respond, then
> type their response beneath that quoted text.
>
>    It's like html-formatted mail: when all your friends and colleages top
> post and send html mail, why bother being different? There are no tests and
> licenses required before driving on the information highway.
>
> Rich
>
>   
Actually, Thunderbird puts the cursor below the original email text. 
Also, being a n00b to email lists, I wasn't aware of proper posting 
etiquette. And personally, I prefer the newest posts at the top so I 
don't have to scroll down past all of the posts I've already read. So 
honestly, it doesn't matter to me where other people post, as I have a 
scroll wheel mouse and it takes less than a second to find the latest 
post. But obviously it matters to other people and if there's a 
generally accepted way of posting then we should all do our best to 
follow suit.



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