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anonymous me again - Personally I wish this etiquette thing had been extended as far as the users of the internet and not just the geek/engineer crowd. I'm fine with bottom posting and inline, but it's also nice to keep up with the current established message flow, if people disagree than i get emails where i scroll up to the top, then to the bottom, rinse repeat until the final answer is somewhere in the middle, ah yes, that is practical. I asked everyone I met after work yesterday about what they thought was proper etiquette in replies (not newsgroups) and everyone said put your reply on the top and no one had heard of an RFC. logically and personally, bottom-posting and inline make an easier read, but 95% of the world top posts and if someone jumps into the conversation and breaks that order, than communication begins to degrade without a lot of trimming. in the end, my pointless is this - can't we all just get along -either pointy haired bosses will have to learn netiquette and RFC's (ha ha) or engineers will need to get communication skills on how to use various items, but i think both are like matter and anti-matter coming together. me, i guess i'll just live with it and trim and bottom-post, still makes me the odd man out in 2000 people. but in the long run i find the linux mail clients generally behave according to the RFC, but i do see this as a problem for wide spread acceptance among the user class - they will complain, they will be ignored, but they will complain and then just not use it.
:I'm sure the majority will unthinkingly go with whatever Outlook Express does as its default - and will be perfectly happy in doing so. Perhaps the solution (if one is indeed needed) is to lobby MS/Google to change their mail clients to be bottom-posting by default (or at least support an option to switch it that way, in the case of GMail)? After all, it's not as if your workmates are active supporters of top posting, they are merely slavishly following a style that OE/Gmail etc. have dictated to them.
:I think if someone was to spark a good honest debate about the matter, perhaps in a forum (magazine?) which cuts across both technical and non-technical users, then the merits and power of bottom posting might be better understood, and the client vendors might more readily support it? [[User:JavaKid|JavaKid]] 12:03, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
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