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Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 09:17:24 -0500
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To: Kamil Tekiela <tekiela246@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Could we drop the bottom-posting rule?
From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon)

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-1. Top posting encourages lazy email composition. One should put an ounce
of thought into how one organizes a response.

On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 4:52 PM Kamil Tekiela <tekiela246@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Internals,
>
> Could we drop the bottom-posting rule?
>
> Almost all new contributors fall into this trap and reply to a thread by
> top-posting, only to get chastised by someone else on the list. It's
really
> difficult to remember to delete the default reply. Mail clients don't make
> it easy for us; it's hidden by default. Bottom-posting makes reading the
> thread much more difficult too. The actual reply gets lost in between the
> quoted content. I often get confused about what is new and what was
> quoted. Many modern clients are designed to handle top-posting and don't
> handle bottom-posting well. People are usually used to it and they read
> from top to bottom. I don't know if in the past some mail clients
defaulted
> to bottom-posting but right now it just seems like an unnecessary
> annoyance.
>
> If you want to quote someone then it makes sense to copy a part of the
> message and then add a reply below, but forcing people to remove the
> default reply from the mail client and then add the whole previous message
> on top of your own reply isn't very productive. It wastes time and screen
> space.
>
> Could we please change this rule or at least stop enforcing it?
> Do people actually have mail clients that don't automatically hide the
> previous conversation? If not, then I think we can let people top-post.
>
> Regards,
> Kamil

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