In a world of mobile phones, I think you have to accept top posting, itâs just too hard to work otherwise on a small screen ... that said, quoting a small piece to reply to - is doable, and I think we can all try to do that? Tim Sent from my iPhone
On 28 May 2018, at 07:26, Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:
On 28 May 2018 at 11:48, Sean P. DeNigris <sean@clipperadams.com> wrote: Dear all,
There were several posts in the "Beacon for Pharo 7" thread which top-posted on top of massive unsnipped quotes that were several-previous-posts deep. IMHO this made the conversation impossible to follow. This issue has cropped up from time to time in other threads.
Please adhere to basic ML etiquette [1] to maximize our effectiveness. Two essential guidelines are: 1) snip quoted material to just what's necessary to understand what's being replied to 2) Post reply /after/ the quote from the OP, not before.
1. https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/mailing-list-faq/etique...
e.g...
Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
The lost context.
What makes top-posted replies harder to read than bottom-posted?
Yes.
Should I trim down the quoted part of an email to which I'm replying?
http://www.idallen.com/topposting.html
Part of the problem is the way gmail and other clients *hide* the original text behind three ellipses dots, so its not immediately obvious how much a thread has grown. Its good to make a habit of clicking those dots immediately after clicking <Reply>.
cheers -ben