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Simon Robert wrote: >In theory I agree with bottom posting, it is the more logical way to do >it, the structure of the dialogue is maintained and any sense easier to >understand. > >The only problem is people out there in the "real" world, as opposed to >Lugers, usually top post. 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. > >Bottom IS better. But what can one do when faced with with a world that >doesn't realise this! Is there a polite way of dealing with this problem >which saves one from a lengthy correspondence about top versus bottom >posting? > >Simon > Tell them you're descended from people who originated in the southern hemisphere, so naturally you're gonna write at the bottom of the message. ;) It's a tough one... and I have to admit that I tend to slip into top-replying when corresponding with people who evidently don't/wouldn't "get it" if I bottom-replied. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html