Q <lists@...> writes: > I've never encountered bottom-posting outside of Linux mailing lists > (admittedly I'm not on any non-Linux mailing lists). Nobody has done it > in any place that I've worked, or at any other organisation that I've > communicated with by email, either privately or at work. FWIW, my policy for my own emails has been, for years: - Quote ONLY the relevant points to which I'm responding. Delete ALL other quoted material before sending. - Place my reply immediately after the relevant point. The reader sees "point - response" in that order. This is logical. > It would be ludicrous to have to scroll through months, maybe even > years, of earlier messages (which need to be there for context, to refer > to WHEN required) to get to what is the most important bit of > information -- the latest bit, the thing that the person is saying now > in response to the previous message. Keeping old material for context makes sense in an email thread *which is not otherwise archived*. Mailing lists are archived, so your point does not hold here. > It seems to me that the only problem is that bottom-posting clashes with > how people actually write messages in every other sphere of life -- it > (bottom-posting) is an outdated practice that needs to die and allow > mailing lists to move with the times. This is pretty close to saying that mailing lists themselves are behind the times. That might be true, actually. hjh _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
