Top Posting Question

[Todd Zullinger]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> However, when you google for e-mail etiquette you can't find a
> source that recommends bottom posting. I am afraid this is a
> peculiarity of fedora-list people.

It's not at all peculiar to the fedora lists.  If you look around,
you'll find many places that have a preference against top-posting.
Technically, bottom posting is only marginally better -- depending on
how strictly you define it.

What is generally preferably on the lists I frequent is inline
replies.  That is where you trim your reply to remove extraneous text
and reply to various parts of the message inline.

Not trimming what is quoted is annoying, whether the text you add is
on the top or on the bottom.  It's only slightly less annoying at the
bottom because that at least follows a more rational pattern to most
readers.

The wikipedia page on top-posting[1] that is linked in the Fedora
mailing list guidelines includes numerous links to other resources.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting

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