Bottom posting v top posting

[Derek Martin]

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 07:24:00AM +1000, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 11:57:33AM -0400, Mark H. Wood wrote:
> > On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 09:52:23AM +1000, 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!
> > 
> > You go right ahead and give it up, if you wish.
> > 
> > I have no interest in coddling people who use tools but can't be
> > bothered to learn how they work.
> 
> That is not the point. I know how mutt works although I am still learning new
> things after using it for 20 years or so. Regretably, at 79, I am forgetting
> some features I rarely use!!

The way I read this, it's not you, but your partner, that Mark
suggested did not bother to learn how to use the tools she is using.
Which, for what it's worth, is what you told us, basically.

> I have however given up trying to convince people to use bottom posting. I go
> with the flow - bottom posting on this list and top posting almost everywhere
> else. There is no point continuing to do something which does not work.

Obviously most of us replying in this thread think that it is top
posting that does not work, as it is confusing and even misleading.
Replying in-line puts your comments after what they refer to, which is
the only way to make sense of any sort of reply to a long message.

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