Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, Lex Ein hat gesagt: // Lex Ein wrote:
- reply-on-top allow efficient handling of list mail.
Huh? Generally bottom quoting is considered to be bad style[...]
But (from "Netiquette") - "Follow any and all guidelines that the listowner has posted; the listowner establishes the local "netiquette" standards for her/his list." Well, there aren't any, so we could argue this until doomsday.
Counterstrike: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html "it's very easy to lose the context in a posting without any quoting at all. Letting the reader understand the context is very important for easy reading. Therefore there should always be /some few/ lines reminding the reader about what kind of discussion he is into. If a person has to /scroll down/ to read the new information, there are probably too much [sic] quotes in the article. "
My more important point (now lost at the bottom of this message) is that the list footer should be concise, bold, and clear.