Q <lists@...> writes:
> I've never encountered bottom-posting outside of Linux mailing lists
> (admittedly I'm not on any non-Linux mailing lists). Nobody has done it
> in any place that I've worked, or at any other organisation that I've
> communicated with by email, either privately or at work.
FWIW, my policy for my own emails has been, for years:
- Quote ONLY the relevant points to which I'm responding. Delete ALL other
quoted material before sending.
- Place my reply immediately after the relevant point. The reader sees
"point - response" in that order. This is logical.
> It would be ludicrous to have to scroll through months, maybe even
> years, of earlier messages (which need to be there for context, to refer
> to WHEN required) to get to what is the most important bit of
> information -- the latest bit, the thing that the person is saying now
> in response to the previous message.
Keeping old material for context makes sense in an email thread *which is
not otherwise archived*.
Mailing lists are archived, so your point does not hold here.
> It seems to me that the only problem is that bottom-posting clashes with
> how people actually write messages in every other sphere of life -- it
> (bottom-posting) is an outdated practice that needs to die and allow
> mailing lists to move with the times.
This is pretty close to saying that mailing lists themselves are behind the
times. That might be true, actually.
hjh
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