Re: Could we drop the bottom-posting rule?

From: Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 21:57:51 +0000
Subject: Re: Could we drop the bottom-posting rule?
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No.
Outlook is not modern.
No.
That's not the point, the missing context is.

Sorry, could not resist ;-)

- Chris


> Am 10.05.2021 um 23:51 schrieb Kamil Tekiela <tekiela246@gmail.com>:
> 
> Hi Internals,
> 
> Could we drop the bottom-posting rule?
> 
> Almost all new contributors fall into this trap and reply to a thread by
> top-posting, only to get chastised by someone else on the list. It's really
> difficult to remember to delete the default reply. Mail clients don't make
> it easy for us; it's hidden by default. Bottom-posting makes reading the
> thread much more difficult too. The actual reply gets lost in between the
> quoted content. I often get confused about what is new and what was
> quoted. Many modern clients are designed to handle top-posting and don't
> handle bottom-posting well. People are usually used to it and they read
> from top to bottom. I don't know if in the past some mail clients defaulted
> to bottom-posting but right now it just seems like an unnecessary
> annoyance.
> 
> If you want to quote someone then it makes sense to copy a part of the
> message and then add a reply below, but forcing people to remove the
> default reply from the mail client and then add the whole previous message
> on top of your own reply isn't very productive. It wastes time and screen
> space.
> 
> Could we please change this rule or at least stop enforcing it?
> Do people actually have mail clients that don't automatically hide the
> previous conversation? If not, then I think we can let people top-post.
> 
> Regards,
> Kamil


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