[access-uk] FW: Re: Top Replying
- From: "John Farley" <j.farley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:58:29 +0100
Hello all,
In the many years I have worked using e-mail I have never come across the
usage of bottom posting. It is always either top posting, mainly, or in some
very specific occasion, top posting with some added comments in the body of
the note below.
The folks who indulge in Bottom Posting seem to be those who may be
considered over passionate about their subject and indeed, their own
knowledge of that subject.
I personally do not want to read a number of earlier e-mails before I get to
the content I want to read.
Regards, John
John Farley
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
john coley
Sent: 28 March 2011 17:58
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Top Replying
Hi Colin, I suspect it depends on whether someone's using outlook or outlook
express. Outlook Express has your reply first, and the replied to message
underneath.
John.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Howard" <colin@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 5:49 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Top Replying
> Greetings,
>
> I am somewhat bemused by the way email programs I have so far experienced,
> work regarding how they process posts being sent when the one being
> replied
> to is left.
>
> In general, I tend to remove the posts to which I am replying, for in most
> cases, I have read a thread and hence each post in turn so don't really
> want
> to re-read again. Of course, top replying makes this much more simple.
>
> If, as seems the case on most non-vi lists, such as on the UK Radio list
> (I
> do not mean the UK Radio Listeners list run by Clive Lever) and also on
> the
> TNAUK group, top-replying is discouraged but is not illegal! why, then,
> do
> all the email clients I've seen place the editting cursor **above** the
> post
> to which a reply is being generated? Surely, this is seen by the software
> developers of such clients as being the most natural way to use them.
>
> Just a few thoughts as I read through the rather ancient thread of
> February
> last year.
>
>
> From Colin Howard, who lives in Fareham on
> the coast of Central Southern England.
>
> One of these days I may even get onto Facebook,
> twitter or skype, so you can't escape from me forever!!
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