[Tutor] Identifying V3 examples

[Jon Paris]

On Jul 23, 2015, at 10:18 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On 23/07/15 14:59, Jon Paris wrote:
> 
>> I am not familiar with the term “top post”
> 
> See this wikipedia article which describes in detail all the
> alternatives along with their relative merits.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
> 
> including this commonly seen example:
> 
> Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> > Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> >> Top-posting.
> >>> What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
> 
> Which with bottom posting becomes the more readable:
> 
> >>> What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
> >> Top-posting.
> > Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> 
> Most technical mailing lists and newsgroups prefer interleaved
> posting where replies to individual points in a message are
> placed just under the relevant part of the message. Just as
> importantly all irrelevant parts of the message should be deleted.
> 
> The common business practice of top posting was encouraged by
> Microsoft Outlook and results in many megabytes of wasted
> disk-space due to long threads of mail being posted multiple
> times in every reply to the thread. It used to drive me mad
> when I was a corporate wage slave... :-)
> 
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I’ve been posting to many different sites for twenty plus years and never had this kind of complaint. I can’t even find a way of telling my email client (Mac) to do it the way you want. Right now I’m manually changing every response to comply with the required etiquette. 

Personally I find it more useful to see the response and then look below for the content. But that’s just me.

I will try not to bother you again.
 

Jon Paris

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