Top Posting Question

[John Summerfield]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 16:04 +0100, Steve Searle wrote:
>> Around 03:52pm on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 (UK time), Jonathan Allen scrawled:
>>
>>> Given that the preference on this list is trimming and 
>>> bottom/mid-posting, and that Thunderbird is one of the principle mail 
>>> agents used in the Fedora and Linux world, why does it always open 
>>> incoming emails at the top, and compose new emails with the cursor at 
>>> the top immediately ready to top-post?  Moreover, thunderbird appears to 
>>> have no user options to bottom post and view emails from the bottom (or 
>>> Usenet articles either).
>> With bottom posting you want it to open at the top, as bottom posted
>> emails are designed to be read from top to bottom.  You should be
>> arguing that Outlook, etc. clients should open at the bottom because
>> its user community tends to top post.
>>
>> Regarding composing, my view (and I've never used Thunderbird) is that
>> it opens at the top so you can start trimming from there, and working
>> down to the bits you want to reply to.
>>
>> Steve
>>
> However, when you google for e-mail etiquette you can't find a source
> that recommends bottom posting. I am afraid this is a peculiarity of
> fedora-list people.

really? I googled "email advice."
first hit:
http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php

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John

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