Re: Posting Style

On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 1:48 PM grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/6/22, Joe B <jb1277976@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What is recommended here on the mailing list?
> > Bottom posting or topo posting?
>
> Bottom, always, since dawn of email, for many reasons.
>
> Reasons and examples of which that volunteers are still
> welcomed to create the missing Handbook section on.
>
> > Mail app iPhone
>
> If this app actually disallows even manual editing of the text
> being replied to in order to put it into proper bottom form, then...
>
> 1) Tell the maker of it to fix that, or to become opensource, or
> you will leave and take your money usage and eyeballs with it.
> 2) Follow through and leave for opensource apps and platforms
> that you can buy use donate contribute and support.
>
> > neomutt on my BSD laptop
>
> There are now at least two "Linux phones" on the market,
> and numerous phablets, such that neomutt can run on them.
> And since they are often ARM64 based, and run Linux,
> there is no reason that BSD cannot be made to run on them.
>
> Volunteers are free to create and run that campaign :)
>
>
The iphone app doesn't prevent you from bottom-posting anymore than gmail
does…they just drop you in at the top and you have to make the effort which
I don't always remember to do. A third option here, to replay after all
included text or after the most recent reply, would be useful.

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and then there is this chestnut…
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

-- 
Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/