plaintext email?

Tue Jan 15 20:42:30 UTC 2019

Warning —top posting also with interspersed comments.

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> On Jan 15, 2019, at 1:36 PM, bzs at theworld.com wrote:
> 
> 
> Re: Top Posting
> 
> To me it depends on whether there's any chance the reader won't know
> what precisely you're responding to in which case in-line is
> warranted.
> 
> I don't have any quoted text in this msg (is that top posting?), is
> anyone lost?
> 
> THE REAL REASON for my responding at all is because there are people
> who lurk and sometimes manage lists who will react angrily, often in
> private email (cowards! :-) ), to a top-post as if you violated some
> inarguable rule and you maybe should be banned or at the very least
> are very rude, similar in tone to if you'd spammed the list or
> whatever.

I am appalled at the nastiness regarding posting prejudices.
"But, but, if your cognitive processes do not match mine, you are an idiot.”
“Why should I love my neighbor as myself? I am so much better"
> 
> I just thought I'd point out it's just a formatting opinion, a
> judgement call by whoever is responding, and nothing more, it's not
> some rule everyone accepts so lose the self-righteous tone.
> 
> If anything I suspect it might have to do with the MUA one uses.
> 
> Maybe, at the very least, accept that the person who top-posted is
> looking at a very different layout than you are, one where that
> top-post looks just fine?

And the viewer/replier may have significantly different cognitive skills.
> 
> I use Emacs/VM for email. It's quite good at, for example, splitting
> the screen so I can look ahead (or behind) in the message if I've lost
> track of some context, or even opening multiple related msgs (even if
> already filed) simultaneously to go back and review what's been said
> already, or forward even to see if one is about to say something which
> has already been adequately addressed.
> 
> It's probably quite a bit different than the one-way upside-down
> (date-wise) scrolling on some vendor-supplied smartphone app.
> 
> I've used them when I've had nothing else and I haven't a clue how one
> can do much else than essentially "more" thru the latest, silo'd, 10^9
> spams interspersed with the occasional bit of ham 20 lines at a time
> so I guess I can understand why some become desperate and angry to get
> others to format their email for their convenience.
> 
> Maybe your problem isn't the top-posting but your lousy MUA?

Or, perhaps, attitude?
> 
> -- 
>        -Barry Shein
> 
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