Re: arsclist Top vs. Bottom Posting

[Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>]

At 02:52 PM 12/15/2002 -0600, Premise Checker wrote:
> On 2002-12-14, Mike Richter opined [snipped now]:

> > 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, 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.

Top posting or replying interspersed is not a problem, IMHO, though it is 
contrary to recommended practice in the newsgroups and elsewhere. The fault 
is seen when top posting is used to avoid editing what follows - which 
often means a massive post saying little more than: "I agree" or "I disagree".

> 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

Neither HTML nor attachment is safe in e-mail. I would strongly recommend 
that both be prohibited; in fact, this is the only list to which I 
subscribe which permits them.


Mike
mrichter@xxxxxxx
http://www.mrichter.com/


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