[Cryptography] ADMIN: Periodic reminder about top posting

Julian Macassey julian at tele.com
Mon Aug 4 14:21:29 EDT 2014


On 2014-08-03 at 19:55, Peter Gutmann (pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz) wrote:

> 
> >[Top-posting reminder]
> 
> 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.

	What is annoying about top posting is the lack of
connection with previous statements and answers.

	You may ask six questions and the top poster replies out
of order in an obtuse way. With in line editing, you have the
correct context.

	Being forced to top post at work, I suffer through this,
often by having to send another mail asking what the reply is
addressing.

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