-1. Top posting encourages lazy email composition. One should put an ounce
of thought into how one organizes a response.
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 4:52 PM Kamil Tekiela <tekiela246@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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