Reply at the top or reply at the bottom?

[Godaddy Personal]

This is the age-old conflict of top- vs. bottom-posting.  It has become somewhat of a religious argument.

Because of factors that you've listed, I tend to be a top-poster.  That ensures, mostly, that my reply will be easily found and read.  If someone is following the thread, they likely will have already read the previous posts, so don't need to reread them.  However, if someone is new to the thread, it will need to be read "bottom-up" which is a bit cumbersome.

Most mail client software allows you to specify in settings how you want threads to be displayed in the mailbox, so that much is generally modifiable by the recipient.

It is never good etiquette to omit needed context from a response.  Trimming unneeded data is acceptable, so long as the resulting message is clear and complete.

Getting directly to your queries:

> Based on this, is there (1) an email client that keeps all this straight
> and (2) has the preferred placement for replies changed?


1) Email clients can be configured to display emails in various order, but not change the order of paragraphs within a particular email.
2) Preferred placement (top- vs. bottom-posting) is a personal preference with some very polarized views.

Cheers,

Dave Gillam
dave at davegillam.org

> On Apr 21, 2017, at 8:15 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I do not have an answer to this question, so I am asking for others' views.
> 
> Long ago (before GMail) it was pretty standard to reply to emails at the
> bottom and various email clients like Thunderbird handled threads very
> well, allowing readers to read messages in chronological order.
> 
> Now, in GMail, which has an annoying habit of 'hiding' all the text below
> the first white space, a reply at the bottom may not even be visible when
> reading a 'new' reply.
> 
> To make matters worse, the Android email client sorts in reverse
> chronological order so the newest is at the top, but if replies are at the
> bottom, it eventually becomes impossible to decipher what order messages
> were posted in.
> 
> If some posters take the time to clip the history out of replies, the
> context gets lost so overly simple replies like "Yes" or "No" become
> meaningless.
> 
> Based on this, is there (1) an email client that keeps all this straight
> and (2) has the preferred placement for replies changed?
> 
> David C
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