Top Posting Question
Anders Karlsson
anders at trudheim.co.uk
Thu Oct 25 08:38:58 UTC 2007
Thus, Tim at Thu Oct 25 03:43:10 2007 inscribed:
> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 17:16 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > 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.
>
> It's also called "usenet style quoting," which predates mailing lists.
Excellent example from http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/quote.html
Where is the best place to put quoted text? Above or below my
comments?
From an unknown origin:
A: Top posters.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet?
I see this apply to mailing lists as well, as the use of a mailing
list is much the same as a newsgroup. Only real difference is in the
propagation of content.
Two further quotes from the page:
<quote>
Adapted from an advisory posting by Bob Gootee: Answering above the
original message is called top posting. Sometimes also called the
Jeopardy style. Usenet is Q & A not A & Q. (The name obviously comes
from the game of Jeopardy, where the competitor is given the answer
before the question.)
A similar point from a posting by Tuomas Venhola: If you start with
your answer, it is a bit like telling the punch-line before giving the
background.
</quote>
Maybe the top-post proponents will understand the idea of usenet and
mailing list quoting preferences with that?
Cheers.
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Anders Karlsson <anders at trudheim.co.uk>
All-Round Linux Tinkerer & RHCE
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