[TriLUG] Email: HTML, replies, signatures, and signing

William Sutton william at trilug.org
Sat Nov 22 19:36:51 EST 2008


I figured that particular snarky quote would eventually show up.  In short 
form like that, it looks like top posting is ridiculous.  As Warren and I 
pointed out, when dealing with with pages of text, bottom posting is 
annoying.

William sutton


On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, James Tuttle wrote:
>
>> Replies?  Reply above the quote or below?  I've tried not to top-post,
>> but it's annoying to others to reply below the quote, I suspect.
>
> I got this from Greg KH greg (at) kroah (dot) com 16 Nov
> 2005.
>
> A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post
> Q: Were do I find info about this thing called top-posting?
> 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?
> A: No.
> Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
>
> Joe
>
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