[Tfug] top/bottom and middle posting

Paul Lemmons paul at lemmons.name
Tue Feb 17 21:21:19 MST 2009


this question

Paul Lemmons wrote:
> I am not a stickler for top or bottom posting but when there is a mix 
> it makes posts almost impossible to follow. Netiquette dictates fairly 
> bluntly that bottom posting is how one should reply to a post. While I 
> recognize that almost every windows email program in the world top 
> posts, it is not all that tough to scroll to the bottom to type in a 
> response. This is a local group so we may have our own conventions but 
> we really ought to have some consistent means of doing this. I vote 
> for bottom posting because I think the Netiquette folks are right on 
> this one. What do you all think?
>
a bad idea it was
> BTW: I have seen this topic boil into a raging flame war. I really do 
> not want that to happen here. It is not dogma it is convention.
>
if ever there was
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