[X-Newbies] Top posing in mail?

[Brian Durant]

In my humble opinion, if top posting is not following net etiquette,
net etiquette should be changed. Why? Because many spell checking
programs slavishly check spelling from the top of any document,
including e-mails. I don't want to have to correct other people's
inarticulate gibberish before I can make sure that I am putting my
point across in an intelligible manner. That is also a likely reason
why this is standard in the business world. Don't get me started on
those people that insist on inserting their comments in between
snippets of replied to text :-)

My € .2

Brian

On 5/20/05, Peter Saint James <peterstj at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>      There is a good reason to have the cursor come to the top of the
> message, even for bottom posters.
> 
>      Not all messages--at least for some people--go to discussion
> lists.  When I need to reply to a private message, I need to start at
> the top.  I need to say,
> 
> 
> Dear XXX,
> 
> Thank you for your message.
> 
> 
> 
>      If I had to move the cursor each time to write this greeting,
> that would annoy me to no end.  There might even be more greeting or
> information there.  In other cultures one would ask about the health
> of family members and express other formalities before getting to the
> discussion of the previous message.
> 
>      Seems to me a logical, necessary, and polite place to place the
> cursor.
> 
> 
>       As to whether to top post or bottom post to list messages, I
> alternate.  It helps to keep people on their toes.
> 
> 
> 
>                                                      Peter
> 
> 
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