Bottom posting v top posting

[Cameron Simpson]

On 13May2018 19:15, Martin Trautmann <traut at gmx.de> wrote:
>Am 13. Mai 2018 17:12:14 MESZ schrieb tech-lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net>:
>
>>Nooooo!! ;) and you're missing the point (IMOHO) :( basically, people
>>quote back way too much. This is the issue. Most email apps allow
>>threaded mail, so very little need to quote whole screeds.
>
>IBTD. Major e-mail tools, such as outlook, failed to support proper threading. Writing on a smartphone here, I'm not even aware of an app with threading.

The Apple iOS mail client threads. As is their habit when they roll out a new 
feature, they turned it on by default. Which should be good for feature 
discovery, but made my partner complain that the threading, such as it was, was 
gone because they threads were now collapsed, with an icon for expansion.

>But are we still discussing bottom vs. top quoting? The here recommended style to me is known as INLINE QUOTING, where you do trim the quoting to the few lines which will help to understand the context of a discussion.

Yes. I suspect calling inline reply bottom posting misleads many many top 
posters to think "why would you put your reply below an infinite of quoted 
text?"

>Neither top or bottom are as efficient to me.

Indeed.

I try to use the metaphor "so that your reply reads like a conversation" when I 
try to convince people.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>