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.

-- 
Chris Green


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