[sylpheed:37133] Re: Quoting Styles

[k0 at trixtar.org]

On Sat, 11 Jun 2022 12:38:10 +0300
Anton Shepelev <anton.txt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Craig:
> > Steve O'Hara-Smith:
> > > Duke Normandin:
> > > 
> > > > ** Bottom-posting, text-only is the netiquette way! **
> > > 
> > > 	Interleaved posting with careful trimming of
> > > quotes if you please.
> > 
> > A. It inverts the order people normally read.
> > Q. Why is top-posting so bad?
> > A. Top-posting.
> > Q. What is the worst thing in email and USENET postings?
> 
> Interleaved posting *is* bottom-posting: you accurately
> quote fragments of a previous message and reply to them
> below each individual quotation. I don't think anybody
> ever interpreted bottom-posting as replying under one huge
> quotation of the entire previous message (as I did here :-)

Seconded; actually I think that the worst possible behavior
is a tie between top posting and uninterleaved bottom posting.
The other one is texto-style composition, the streaming
monstrosity that everyone can immediately recognise :-)

https://i.imgur.com/b6voLxD.png