[Cryptography] ADMIN: Periodic reminder about top posting

[Benjamin Kreuter]

On Sun, 2014-08-03 at 19:55 +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Tamzen Cannoy <tamzen at cannoy.org> writes:
>
> Hopefully this won't hijack the conversation too much, but I had a
> coincidental talk about this yesterday with a non-geek friend who mixes with
> lots of geeks.  She mentioned that the style of conversation used here, quoted
> excerpts and short passages as replies, are very much the exception for email
> exchanges.  The only place she's ever seen it used is by geeks.  The norm for
> all other people (that she's aware of, obviously it's not a sample of the
> entire world) is to include the entire message at the bottom (nested
> arbitrarily deep), and have the reply at the top.  Your mail reader then
> formats it as required.
> 
> This came as something of a surprise to me.

Really?  Outside of technical mailing lists and Usenet, almost everyone
I correspond with top posts.  Even among technical people it seems like
the majority top posts.

-- Ben
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