Re: mail formatting (was: .Net Question - Resent)

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:24:48AM -0600, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> Whether top- or bottom-posting is better depends on the content of the
> mail. Sometimes one is more useful, sometimes the other. I have
> top-posted to this list many times before -- looking over just today's
> mail, I've already top-posted one mail to the dev list (the one about
> the svn_wc_adm_*_depth functions), and it was entirely appropriate.
>
> There is no "norm that virtually everyone on this list respects".
> Sure, there's probably a majority of bottom-posting, but hopefully
> that's because people think about each individual case and do what's
> best for that case.
>
> The whole issue of which to choose is actually quite complex, and I
> don't think it's worth describing a decision algorithm. Therefore I'm
> not replying to do that; I'm only posting to ask that you don't imply
> a norm that doesn't exist.

I suppose that is true. Let me rephrase.

The particular style exhibited in the email I was referring to is
particularly difficult to read. I haven't seen anyone on this list
using that style. Sometimes, top posting is okay. But it really
depends on the context and the formating that is done. I don't consider
the email I was replying to an example of reasonable use of top posting.

-- 
Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
http://ben.reser.org
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken
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