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

[Mark P. Conmy]

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, David Holden wrote:
> On Sunday 28 October 2007, Dave Fisher wrote:
>>
>> Moreover, I'd even endorse the idea that top-posting has several
>> important communicative advantages in everyday email, e.g. seeing the
>> most pertinent message first, before wading into the record of prior
>> discussion.
>
> Most normal people (non tech folk) I've talked to are baffled when I bottom
> post - "Why do I have to scroll down all the time for you replies.."

Then you've not snipped sufficiently.

>> ... and I'd even go so far as to claim that mixing posting modes makes
>> it objectively difficult to follow more than 2 or 3 steps in a threaded
>> discussion.
>
> I've lefts lists over top/bottom post fascists, its not worth the hassle.

Sure - but surely it's worth a debate.  It's not about being a fascist
so much as trying to find a way forward _together_.

Mark