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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Could we drop the bottom-posting rule?
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 11.05.2021 at 18:58, Kamil Tekiela wrote:

> On 11.05.2021 at 18:44, Peter Bowyer wrote:
>
>> I doubt "bottom posting" is a term people who started online in the
>> last 10 years know - with today/yesterday's example, my takeaway was
>> the original poster didn't know what it meant.
>
> Yeah, the first time I heard about it is on this mailing list. I didn't
> know it was a thing before, and I admit I might still not understand why=
 it
> is a thing. [=E2=80=A6]

Bottom posting is nonsense.  It is actually about posting comments
inline, i.e. right below the context (a sentence, paragraph, etc.)
you're referring to.  And it's about snipping content which is
irrelevant to your reply (of course that could be misused to rip parts
of former replies out of context, but that should be avoided).

Just read this message in a few weeks.  Even if you don't remember the
discussion, you likely don't need to read other messages of this thread,
because it is self-contained.  And this is the whole point of this
style: to be able to read up on a (part of a) conversation later.  For
read-once contents, top posting can make perfect sense (although a chat
may be more suitable for such conversations).

=2D-
Christoph M. Becker