Bottom posting v top posting
Chris Green
cl at isbd.net
Sun May 13 08:22:39 UTC 2018
On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 11:44:49PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 03:23:45AM +0000, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > I also bottom post with some of my best friends who _are_ gmail users,
> > and they don't object.
>
> +1
>
So do I with family and friends.
> The key, I've learned, is to teach them about bottom-posting. I have
> occassionally used bottom-posting with contacts without warning, and
> that has led to some confusion. I now try to remember to put "see my
> responses in-line below" as the first line of the message.
>
Yes, I add a line like that sometimes if it's long. However the other
thing to do is to trim/snip heavily so you really do only leave the
required context.
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Chris Green
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