Re: wl newbie, various questions

[Francesco Mazzoli <f@mazzo.li>]

Thanks for the link.

> Bottom-posting preserves the logical order of the replies and is
> consistent with the Western reading direction from top to bottom. It's
> even better and easier to read if you also remove non-important parts
> of the original text (C-c C-d).

Uhm, I'm not sure I'm convinced... what I usually do is to quote the
parts I'm replying to, which according to that page is called
"interleaved posting", and then leave the conversation untouched at
the bottom, which apparently is called "top posting".

This, to me, is the most convenient way, since the reply is
understandable since you have a reference but you preserve the
original conversation, which is useful if you have to add people to
the conversation at a later date.

Anyway, I don't want to sidetrack the conversation too much, I'll read
that page with more attention later.

Francesco.

At Fri, 15 Jun 2012 23:04:18 +0200,
Jonathan Groll wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:44:46 +0100, Francesco Mazzoli <f@mazzo.li> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > Lol!!! One thing that sure surprises me about Wanderlust is all the
> > > top posting.  Being text based, I expected more adherence to "old
> > > school" defacto standards....
> > 
> > Well guess what, I'm not old school and nobody ever educated me on how
> > to write emails :). If you have a link explaining the pros and cons
> > I'd be glad to read it.
> 
> Quite well described in this wikipedia page:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
> 
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> A: Top-posting.
> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
> 
> Bottom-posting preserves the logical order of the replies and is
> consistent with the Western reading direction from top to bottom. It's
> even better and easier to read if you also remove non-important parts
> of the original text (C-c C-d).
> 
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
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