<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/8/1 Steve Hodge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stevehodge@gmail.com">stevehodge@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Wade Maxfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mythtvnz@hotblack.co.nz" target="_blank">mythtvnz@hotblack.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>On 1/08/09 11:31 AM, Barry Clearwater wrote:<br>
> {risking a flame war!!}Sorry Nick, but I really don't understand the fuss<br>
> about top bottom or middle posting!{/risk} Is it a mail client problem?
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</div>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.<br>
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Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br>This argument against top posting doesn't seem to be very effective - if people saw this as a problem they'd already be bottom posting. I think the reason top posting s<snip><br>
<br>The best reason not to top post (IMHO) is that top posting makes it hard on people getting the digest version of the list. Those people don't get the list nicely threaded so it helps them a lot to get nicely trimmed messages with context at the top.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br><br></div></div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br>That particular reason I can understand. Unfortunately as I've been using gmail of late which shrinks all the previous emails to a little purple <span id="q_122d348c2dcba460_3" class="h4">"- Show quoted text -"</span> and then displays all previous messages stacked above in threaded mode, I've not understood how uncomfortable it could be for another user and clearly other email clients. I must confess however, I've googled for a page that indicates preferred styles for this mailing list and come up with only other posts. Plain text versions of the mail with > and >>>> are horrible to read though so sorry for those who have suffered. So where is this etiquette page?<br>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br>Barry Clearwater <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:barryc@bcsystems.co.nz">barryc@bcsystems.co.nz</a><br>