Bottom posting v top posting

[Brian Salter-Duke]

Posting to this list yesterday and a recent incident with my partner,
prompts me to raise the issue of bottom posting. For a long time, mutters
have fought battles and wars to get everybody to bottom post. It makes a lot
of sense, but we have lost every battle and every war. I now only bottom
post to emails on this list. I also never ever see bottom posting in all the
hundreds of emails I get every week, other than posts to the mutt lists.

My partner reads gmail on her phone or tablet. She reads my messages but does
not realise that if she scrolls down she can see her message that I replying
to. If I had bottom posting, she would never have read my message, thinking
that some how she had got her email back again. The use of phones for email
alters the game. It is time we gave up bottom posting!

Hids under desk to avoid retaliation!

Brian.

-- 
"Please stop telling us what you feel. Please stop telling us what your
intuition is. Your intuitive feelings are of no interest whatsoever, 
and nor are mine. I don't give a bugger what you feel, or what I feel. 
I want to know what the evidence shows."             -- Richard Dawkins
Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke) Email: brian(DOTjames(DOTduke(AT)gmail(DOT)com