Re: [libreoffice-users] OT Top/Bottom posting

This is a silly argument...

On 2011-05-31 1:16 PM, Lindsay Graham wrote:
> Ah, but neither of us would *ever *need to page down to see the
> current post if we both top-posted.

Irrelevant... like I said, the same thing applies to a properly trimmed
bottom/inline posted message.

The only time I need to scroll a bottom/inline posted message (which I
mostly don't bother doing, I just click delete) is when someone like Tom
bottom posts *without trimming*...

> You cannot claim, in a general context, that there is there is a
> *proper* way of using one's mail client.

I can, I did, and I meant it.

> In most mailing lists (and I access libreoffice-users through a
> mailing list, not a newsgroup) and almost *all *commercial 
> correspondence, top-posting is used.

Ahem... the posting guidelines link at the bottom of each and every one
of the libreoffice-users list asks you to please bottom post... so your
own example was misplaced... ;)

> Why? Because, it is the most suitable in those environments.

Wrong - it is because most people are lazy, and it is the easiest, and
because it is the default for Outlook, which is what most corporate
drones use.

> On the other hand, I agree that bottom-posting is suitable in a
> well-disciplined technical newsgroup -- but how many are
> well-disciplined (ie, follow newsgroup netiquette)? Not many.

They are not well disciplined because they are lazy, and because they
can get away with in most cases.

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