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Re: [LUG] top v bottom

 

On May 29, 2006, Simon Robert was like:

> The only problem is people out there in the "real" world, as opposed to 
> Lugers, usually top post.

> Bottom IS better. But what can one do when faced with with a world that 
> doesn't realise this!

I just typed 'email etiquette' into google and the top site is
www.emailreplies.com which lists the 31 most important rules for
companies replying to email queries. None of them are about top
or bottom posting. Odd. I tried 'email etiquette top' with no better
luck. I tried 'email etiquette bottom' and got this sensible
comment: http://www.rc3.org/2006/04/the_new_email_e.php which says
that email clients not only do it (top) but expect it as well. So
we may not be able to keep our finger in the dyke much longer. 

Tony Sumner
 





 I have tried bottom posting to "real" people 
> out there in real world land maybe 5 or 6 times.
> 
> A couple of responses asking me to resend as I had not sent the one with 
> my reply, one suggesting that I remember to try and write something and 
> one apologising for the fact that they weren't good with computers and 
> had managed to trash my e-mail.
> 
>  I'd like to mail back (at the top) and tell whoever it is that they 
> have the cognitive ability of a brick and the visual acuity of a myopic 
> mole,  but this is only possible when dealing with immediate family.
> 
> So I have to mail back explaining (at the top) that my reply is at the 
> bottom of the e-mail. That some people think this is the correct manner 
> of response and have a heavy strop if one does differently. The e-mailee 
> is either slightly bemused or suggests that the world is full of sad and 
> deluded people.
> 
 Is there a polite way of dealing with this problem 
> which saves one from a lengthy correspondence about top versus bottom 
> posting?
> 
> Simon
> 
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