Re: [Evolution] Compositing Pet Peeve

[Philippe LeCavalier <support plecavalier com>]

On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 19:24 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 18:33 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 14:25 -0400, Philippe LeCavalier wrote:
> > > > > P.S. Of course, I wouldn't see this if I weren't top-posting but
> > > ppl
> > > > > never see my replies when I interweave my responses.
> > > > 
> > > > Er, yes we do.
> > > 
> > > Yes. You certainly do just like everyone else here but none of my
> > > clients do ;)
> > 
> > Your clients presumably aren't using mailing lists. The objection to
> > top-posting is strictly in the context of Internet mailing lists, which
> > tend to have many members, last for many years, and have all their
> > traffic archived. In other contexts, do whatever seems best. I often use
> > top-posting in private communications.
>
> Perhaps Philippe should file a bug against his clients =p.

 Yes. I've tried brut force many times regarding top vs bottom posting. At one point I was even editing the message after each response to look at least bottom posted if not interleaved. I lasted about a month and gave up because everyone was so confused.

If it were up to me, I would choose to at least bottom post and ideally interleave.
> But yes, Mailing Lists seem to be the ONLY place bottom-posting 'works'
> anymore. In private (long) conversations you have to explicitly state
> "reply interleaved" at the top to get anyone to read it.
We need a email netiquette revolution

Cheers,
Phil