References Re: [Wylug-discuss] List Etiquette: Top Posting vs. Bottom Posting

Dave Fisher wylug-discuss at davefisher.co.uk
Sun Oct 28 01:52:03 BST 2007


Sorry for repying to my own post, but I thought it might help those who
haven't encountered this debate before, if I posted a couple of
references:

  Wikipedia on Posting Style: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting

  The Internet Standard for 'Netiquette': http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855

I'd particularly draw attention to this observation in the Wikipedia
piece:

  "Top-posting is viewed as seriously destructive to mailing-list
  digests, where multiple levels of top-posting are difficult to skip.
  The worst case would be top-posting while including an entire digest
  as the original message"

Dave



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