Stefan Trethan wrote:
>>>I would vote for top posting, i was told in the past to bottom post and
>>>so i did. Still i find it inconvenient and would like to see how the others think.
>>
>>You still need to cut the 100+ trailing lines off anyway, so it's no
>>extra work to do that, then bottom-post, which should all be visible
>>on the screen.
>>
> The top posting in not for the convenience of the poster, it is for the
> convenience of the reader.
> If the mail is short enough, ok, you can see all on the screen.
> But if it is more than one page (or one half depending on mail software)
> you need to scroll any mail you want to read down.
> I read more posts than i write, as does anyone, so i would rather have
> convenience in reading many mails
> a day, rather than just not reading at all posts with a topic not so interesting.
> The only advantage of bottom post so far is "logical order" which is
> doubtful, as normal (non-list) emails are normally answered on top too?
>
> I will do as the majority (or the owner) says, but i also will voice my
> different opinion.
The problem is mail clients that don't have a setting to autoscroll to
the bottom of messages.