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

Roger Beaumont roger.bea at blueyonder.co.uk
Sun Oct 28 14:28:59 GMT 2007


Can I summarise what I think I've taken from this?

1. Top vs. bottom vs. in-line seems to be a matter of different personal 
preference - often passionately held.

It seems to me that a universal consensus on this is unlikely to be achievable.

2. An almost universally shared position seems to be that it is bad 
etiquette to waste readers' time; by no matter what means, posters should 
minimise how long it takes to 'cut to the chase'.

I don't think it would be hard to agree on that being the underlying aim.

And IMHO, if we succeed with point 2, point 1 probably doesn't matter too much.

Roger






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