Bottom posting was the norm because of how text based terminals worked. The whole message would scroll past, and at the bottom of your screen would be the reply.
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Shannon Roddy" <sroddy@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:11:39
To:nolug@nolug.org
Subject: Re: [Nolug] passport account? wanna download something for me?
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:23 AM, David B. John <djohn@archdiocese-no.org <mailto:djohn@archdiocese-no.org> > wrote:
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 10:23 -0500, Dustin Puryear wrote: The whole top-posting vs. bottom-posting deal is a relic... Just do both.
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For me, it boils down to readability of an email thread. If there is no chance of an email thread turning into a long bit of text, I really could care less. However, when a thread turns into 20+ paragraphs with a half dozen people inserting replies top, bottom, and inline it makes my blood boil. You ever try to read an email that is multiple "pages" long with a mixture of top, bottom, and inline posting?
There is a reason bottom/inline posting was standard long ago. It helps in readability of threads, and follows the left-to-right, top-to-bottom flow of natural English language text/dialog.
I'm going to start right-justifying and typing all of my responses to Dustin backwards so that he has to read them right to left.
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