Bottom posting v top posting

[Erik Christiansen]

On 13.05.18 09:52, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
> 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!

The world has an infinite supply of fools who stumble through it,
unaware that it is the adaptor who survives. NO, it is not the list
community which needs to adapt to one intruder, but the converse.

Bottom post, and we will read. Only then can you hope for a reply.
Understand that we have t-prot for TOFU protection, and do not need to
scroll down as long quotes are compressed. Trim your quotes, not out of
consideration for the reader if you lack that, but in order for your
reply to be seen and read.

Try to learn. It is a prerequisite to becoming adaptable. The first
survival tactic is when in Rome, do as they do. We have no problem with
you sending inverted messages in other domains. Go your hardest, but to
attempt to impose that foolishness on our community is infantile and a
symptom of slow learning.

Thinking can be a useful path to learning. Is it possible for you to
imagine that if you could learn to trim your quotes to the essential
minimum of a line or two, then bottom posting works well on most
screens, and even on phones if you prefix the whole message with:
"For clarity I'm answering in context, see below:"

Your partner's ignorance and your failure to compensate do not compel an
entire community to pander to your slow learning. Please man up and adapt. 

Erik