bottom posting nntp ??? posting for email

I know that the *correct* way to reply to nntp posts is bottom posting(heh
sounds painfull), but what is the standard for email?

 

Who says it's correct ? Who says what is correct for email ? It's individual
taste. But rules to go by ? Bah.

On the scale of things that are important in life's existence, is it really
that important ?

 

RFCs say it is correct to bottom post in usenet, I believe.

no, but it is nice to be correct.

 

And I just top posted in usenet by mistake LOL

 

thanks, although it was interesting reading, it was as useless as asking
Paul for some money...

got any other RFC's for me to read today teacher?

 

LOL no, that was simply googles first answer

 

T.N.O. allegedly said:

Depends.

News postings are about discussion.

Work e-mail is more often an audit trail of a stream of comunication.

They server different purposes. For this reason:

I bottom-post in newsgroups...to enable easy understanding of the points
being made.

I top-post in e-mail to add my comments - in their entirety - to those which
have gone before.

 

steve allegedly said:

....unless the e-mail requires a detailed response more in line with a
discussion.....in which case I bottom post.

 

... don't you mean "interleaf post" ? ... only sane way to deal with detail by
detail comment

Bruce

 

Since emails are one on one, and when you reply to something that you've
obviously read first. Then you and the other party already know what the
original message said. That's why I think it's better to top post for one
to one emails.

Because people don't always know what people are replying to the newsgroups,
that's why it's better to bottom post for people to follow what's going on
instead of having to dart all over the place in a post that could well have
over 6 replies in it. Which is a lot better if all 6 replies are one under
each other instead of all over the place when someone adds a top post to a
thread.

E. Scrooge

 

Then why do you not bottom post?

See why bottom posting is a good idea? Time, come here you have some
giving to do.

 

Why bother. Delete the whole orginal message and start afresh.

The point of quoting is to remind the person/reader what they said, ie
what the subject is.

 

huh?
Is there only the 2 of us in this group?

Leaving some message intact helps the poor sod that has a look in a few days
time.
I don't bother reading every damn post, that nonsense is best left to the
geeks that have nothing better to do.

E. Scrooge

 

His hierarchy of needs must be well and truly full

 

Slight change, but Ive pinched it anyway.

 

Gordon allegedly said:

I do in personal e-mail.

In work e-mail I top-post becasue work communication is more like an
archeological dig - you go down through the stack to go back in time.

I think it should be called 'relevance posting' because all we are doing is
posting with our additions placed immediately after the relevant comment
from the prior post.

Therefore top-posting is irrelevant posting.

 

A: Because people read from top to bottom

Q: Why is top posting bad?

 

I had to read that three times before I got it in the correct order...
weird.

 

You sound like I feel!