[Ilugc] issues with top and bottom posting
- From: tshrinivasan@xxxxxxxxx (Shrinivasan T)
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 21:23:38 +0530
For example, in the conversation on promoting Linux, Niam Infotech top
posted a reply on top of Jobin's top post which was on top of
Kenneth's email, saying "Thanks a ton for taking this initiative.
Appreciated." There is no way to tell for sure whom the poster was
appreciating, unless he mentions it. The same applies for criticism as
well.
So, we have to request the top posters to add "Mention" for whom they
write. :-)
Also removing all the context from a reply and posting the reply
alone is also considered top posting by many people. There is no way
to absolutely ascertain the target of the reply. It might be possible
to apply common sense and context to find out, but that might not be
possible always.
The new comers scare to mail to our list on the fear of
top/bottom/middle post threats.
So, some of them remove all the content and type their replies.
And while I agree that we're past the era of bandwidth issues (just my
personal opinion), why should we repeatedly archive the context in
every single mail though the mailing list already does that? We're
wasting hard disk space in addition to making the reading of emails
from the list difficult.
The gmail tricks the reader by hiding all the quoted text.
We can see that all the top/bottom posts wont give any trouble for the
gmail users.
Who uses other email systems and email clients link mutt, emacs,
thunderbird suffer from top/bottom posts.
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T.Shrinivasan
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