On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 the voices made Fuzzy Logic write:
FL> Do show me an example of the netiquette which suggests bottom-posting, and
FL> I'll bet I can find another which suggests top-posting.
From RFC 1855 - Netiquette guidelines; 3.1.1 General Guidelines for mailing
lists and NetNews:
# If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you
# summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just
# enough text of the original to give a context. This will make
# sure readers understand when they start to read your response.
# Since NetNews, especially, is proliferated by distributing the
# postings from one host to another, it is possible to see a
# response to a message before seeing the original. Giving context
# helps everyone. But do not include the entire original!
From <URL: http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html >:
# A reason given by stubborn top-posters: they don't like to scroll to read the
# new message. We like to disagree here, because we always have to scroll down
# to see the original message and after that to scroll back up, just to see to
# what they are replying to. As a result you have to scroll twice as much when
# reading a top-poster's message. As a counterargument they say (believe us
they do):
# "You can check the previous message in the discussion". This is even more
# tiresome than scrolling and with the unreliable nature of Usenet (and even
# email is inevitably unreliable), the previous message in the discussion can
# be simply unavailable.
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