On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 09:04:32PM -0800, Dan Youngquist via tde-users wrote:
> On 1/16/21 8:00 PM, Michele Calgaro via tde-users wrote:
> > What are the advantages of bottom posting? I can't fiugre them out to be
> > honest.
>
> The advantage is, you can trim all but the relevant line or two to which
> you're replying, and do that with multiple sentences/paragraphs if
> necessary, replying to each right along with the text to which you're
> replying, and have a nice neat post that's easy for anyyone to read and
> follow. It even works well when it's helpful to include a couple layers of
> quotes for continuity, as long as you trim what's not relevant.
That's not bottom posting.
You're not posting your content at the *bottom* of the untrimmed, fully
quoted message you replied to. You're posting your content interleaved
between quoted text, like a good netizen.
-- Top posting --
My reply.
> Third post in full.
> > Second post in full.
> > > First post in full.
-- Bottom posting --
> > > First post in full.
> > Second post in full.
> Third post in full.
My reply.
-- Inline posting --
> Relevent parts of third post.
My reply.
> > Just enough quoting to establish context.
> Additional relevant parts of third post.
My reply.
Harder to describe than to do, unless you have a really awful mail
client like GMail or Outlook.
> Of course, it doesn't work when people don't bother to trim anything, and
> just add their 1 or 2 lines at the bottom of dozens and dozens of lines with
> 8 layers of completely irrelevant quotes, which makes it very difficult to read.
And *that* horror is bottom-posting.
--
Steve
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