[GNC] Two Instances as opposed to two separate files

R Losey rlosey at gmail.com
Sat Jul 15 17:35:13 EDT 2023


On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 8:10 PM Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:

> I saw this in an email exchange a few years back that can be summarized as:
>
> A3: Then you get email chains like this.
>
> Q3: But I prefer to top post to see what was entered last!
>
>
> A2: So the response makes sense after reading the relevant question.
>
> Q2: Why bottom post?
>
>
> A1: Please use bottom posting.
>
> Q1: Do we top or bottom post?
>
>
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> Stephen M Butler
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> On 7/14/23 17:56, R Losey wrote:
> > Is there really a convention for replies? Gmail puts my replies at the
> top
> > by default (like this), but if they are supposed to be at the bottom, I
> can
> > pretty easily do that as well. But I haven't seen a FAQ or heard that
> this
> > is a convention.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 6:50 AM Paul Feakins<paul at antropy.co.uk>  wrote:
> >
> >> With a mailing list such as this, I believe the convention is to put
> >> replies at the bottom?
>


Yes, one can come up with contrived situations in which either approach is
better (or worse).

It's annoying that GMAIL doesn't have this feature as a setting; it always
puts above by default (and, in truth, I've gotten used to reading from the
bottom up anyway.

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Richard Losey
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Micah 6:8


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