<VV> TOFU Posting (no Corvair)

Frank DuVal corvairduval at cox.net
Sat Jan 21 09:04:45 EST 2012


Your example is how I read all emails except the few bottom posters here on VV. 

Emails at work have many replies, so with top posting you can just read the latest reply when opening the email with out scrolling through pages of history. 

On Jan 21, 2012, at 6:45 AM, "Steven J. Serenska" <corvair at serenska.com> wrote:

> Matt, Chaz:
>> Chaz... the reason you bottom post is to give the readers a  reminder of the part of the previous message you are responding to..
>> 
>> At least that's the way I see it.  Our Usergroup is not formatted like a  Forum  online.
>> 
>> Matt Nall
> Here's an imaginary conversation that illustrates some of the
> of TOFU (text over, fullquote under) posting:
> 
> Because it messes up the flow of reading.
>> How come?
>>> I prefer to reply inline.
>>>> What do you do instead?
>>>>> No.
>>>>>> Do you like top-posting?
> 
> Steven "not to mention quoting entire VV digests" Serenska
> 
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