"I think it's even worse when multi topics are merged into one post." ^^^ THIS! A thousand times, this Wikipedia has an interesting section on the subject: In the earlier days of Usenet informal discussions where everyone was an equal encouraged bottom-posting. Until the mid-1990s, posts in a net.newcomers newsgroup insisted on interleaving replies. Usenet comp.lang hierarchy, especially comp.lang.c and comp.lang.c++ insisted on the same as of the 2010s. The alt hierarchy tolerated top-posting. Newer online participants, especially those with limited experience of Usenet, tend to be less sensitive to arguments about posting style. Indeed, Usenet was just giving way to BBS' when I started my computing journey, presumably leading to my insensitivity on the subject of TOFU ("text over, fullquote under"). Bottom-posting preserves the logical order of the replies and is consistent with the Western reading direction from top to bottom. The major argument against bottom-posting is that scrolling down through a post to find a reply is inconvenient, especially for short replies to long messages. I fear we're entering into the Fire Swamp. Look out for the Rodents of Unusual Size! E -- Securely sent with Tutanota. It's good, you should try it: https://tutanota.com 6. Jul 2016 09:51 by will(a)artcontrol.me:
Yeah that was awesome Peter. Did you use Python by chance to reverse those lines of text? Personally top-down and non-trimming doesn't bother me, I relize that in-line posting is ideal but I believe the convo is more important than where the 0s and 1s are placed. Getting upset AND YELLING really doesn't help and just makes me want to top-post more and of course yell back. Though the best action instead of reacting is to just ignore and walk away (chill William everything is going to be ok, deep slow breaths). I think it's even worse when multi topics are merged into one post.
If you trim totally without quoting it can be hard to know what it being replyed to.
Be happy wlug mailing list is plain text (I'm looking at you ccanz grr)
Cheers,
William