Re: [Evolution] Top Post - Bottom Post [ was Re: stability/Jewett ]

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 17:15 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > Top Post - Good
> > >                     Bottom Post - Good
> > > Mixing Top Post and Bottom Post - Bad
> > How about a thread where some people top-post and others bottom-post
> > (leading to a mixture of both styles in the same quoted message)? If
> > that is bad, why don't we just standardize ...
>
> Which is the entire point;  read any of the very good netiquette
> documents (even RFCs!).
>
> The *standard* is to bottom-post (or better: inline) your response.  But
> that clearly isn't going to happen.  We could "just standardize" - you
> just need to convince everyone who top-posts and also everyone who can't
> trim signatures and extraneous crap from their replies.

That was kind of my point. I was being ironic.

poc