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Onyeibo Oku<twohotis@gmail.com> typed:
Sorry, this is another top-post. I agree totally but you
need to give people benefit of doubt too (like in my case
... I'm mobile and the mail app on this phone is
hardcoded to push all quotes below the reply)
Otherwise, I do bottom posts when I'm my desktop/laptop
Sheesh! Speaking of lazy; it takes exactly 2 keystrokes to from the
top/bottom to the bottom/top of any post or e-mail. CTRL HomeOREnd does the
job!
You won't have any luck in changing the bottom-posting preferences as it's
long established that the wishes of the masses will not change for the
wishes of the minorities simply for the minor convenience you present.
Hmmm, a couple of comments.
I dislike laptops because the keyboards are horrid compared to my standard keyboard. Pressing this key combination may be problematic. Still, perhaps it is lazy, but, that feels harsh to me.
If the entire mass of people preferred bottom posting, then top/bottom posting would rarely come up on the list. Every company where I have worked, top posting is used (every company has used OUTLOOK, and that is how the computers are pre-configured). Most of the people that I email on a regular basis top post, not bottom post. I expect, however, that top posting is strongly preferred for personal correspondence, because the only time that bottom posting seems to be advantageous is if you see an email message for the first time after there have already been numerous responses. In that case, it is easier to read from top to bottom. If you have been following the thread, however, then bottom posting is less efficient and annoying (and no email software supports positioning the view to the first non-quoted text).
I only see top/bottom posting comments on OOo/LO related email lists. Never noticed it mentioned on the other lists to which I subscribe. Hmmm, I should take a look.
Argyll mailing list, I see almost exclusively top posting.
On the GIMP documentation mailing list, it seems to be mostly top posting and some interspersed.
GNOME mailing list seems to have a large number of bottom posts, but, most are interspersed and some of the long time posters are top posters.
I did not check Apache, but, I think that the Apache lists recently mentioned something about this, so, I expect that they have a preference for bottom posting as well, but, I cannot swear to it.
I can't say I ever paid it much mind until I saw people get all riled up about it.
If you want bottom posting, and only bottom posting, then LO should make that as a clear decision and then that should be communicated when you sign up, and, it should be posted on a FAQ. Then, when some uninformed person top posts, a nicely worded response that bottom posting is recommended on LO mailing lists, and then provide a link to terms of usage that states this. The important item, however, is that these uninformed people be treated nicely and that their questions are answered. It is counter-productive to the project to provide a response to their question only to berate them without answering their question.
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