Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Old Hat "Top or Bottom Posting"!

Ken

On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 10:39 -0600, Ken Springer wrote:

> On 6/2/11 9:48 AM, Marc Grober wrote:
> > Sounds like top posting with interlineation as appropriate to me.  I
> > just follow the guidelines and ignore everything else....  You take your
> > reader as you find him....
>
> When it comes to top posting, the guidelines aren't fond of that.  :-) 
> The basic premise against the top posting is you read the answer and 
> then have to go look for the question.  It does feel "backwards" to me 
> to do it that way.
>
> Which I had to do to know which of my comments you were replying to.   :-)
>
>
> -- 
> Ken
>
> Mac OS X 10.6.7
> Firefox 3.6.17
> Thunderbird 3.1.10
> LibreOffice 3.3.2

I can see the value of both top and bottom posting. Which is better
probably depends on the situation. If you are exchanging emails with one
or two other people then top posting probably makes more sense. That is
more like a normal telephone conversation. When you have many people
answering and involved bottom posting probably makes more sense because
you can at least skim the contents of the other posts before deciding to
reply. As far as legal beagles are concerned I think the key issue is
preserving the record not how it is order in the emails, from the emails
you can reconstruct an accurate record of what was written with when and
to whom and by whom identified.

Personally, I do not really care which way is done as long as it is
consistent.


-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com

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