[Tfug] top/bottom and middle posting

Joshua Zeidner jjzeidner at gmail.com
Tue Feb 17 21:25:08 MST 2009


  you would think there would be some easy to use, centralized
authority on this issue by now.

  -jmz

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Paul Lemmons <paul at lemmons.name> wrote:
> 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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