arsclist Top vs. Bottom Posting

[Premise Checker <checker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2002-12-14, Mike Richter opined [message unchanged below]:

> At 07:53 PM 12/14/2002 -0600, Premise Checker wrote:
> >Steve, where does the 1 MB per sound file come from?
> 
> 32 Kbps => 250 KB per minute. At four minutes per sound file => 1 MB. That 
> may not have been the logic used, but it is consistent with saving the 
> audio in a reasonable format.
> 
> NOTE: Please use bottom posting unless you have a compelling reason not to. 
> It facilitates removing extraneous quotation and certainly encourages 
> deleting the reduplicated ads.
> 
> Mike
> mrichter@xxxxxxx
> http://www.mrichter.com/

Mike, I've never seen a format where bottom posting is best. This is true
of the UNIX programs, Pine for e-mail, trn and tin for newsgroups, and of
Outlook and Outlook Express for both. This issue has received a certain
amount of attention, and I recall that the Germans prefer bottom
posting but that most everyone else prefers top posting. We could take a
poll.

I use Pine and Lynx (for the web), since they are fastest. I can telnet
into my account from anywhere, too.

What I most dislike is the use of HTML in e-mails and failure to wrap
lines at, say, 72 characters. Also those who fail to strip off the
graphics and related junk when forwarding a webpage as e-mail.

Frank

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