spmug614 Top-Post or Bottom-Post? What Does That Mean?
You get an email and you hit "Reply," and the entire content of the
incoming email is quoted. Do you reply above (on top) or below (at
bottom) of the quoted text? David Pogue's New York Times column on this
drew 2,000 emails.
To indicate that one can do it "anyway you want," one responder said "I
often reply below the original quote, dialogue style. I use smileys,
too. I also, on occasion, wear seersucker pants." There is one thing
that I do which I wish others would do. I wish incoming emails would not
include a half dozen headers! Honestly folks, you can easily delete all
those headers when you forward email. If you do not know how, call me!!!
While I am on the topic, you could also get TextSoap, which shows up in
your Services in Cocoa applications, such as Mail and TextEdit. This
allows you to make ordinary paragraphs out of incoming email containing
all those > > characters and funny line endings where one word becomes a
paragraph (dozens of them in a single email).
You can clean up a forward using Text-Soap on the outgoing message
before you click Send. One more email suggestion for today. When you
send a joke or an interesting article to a group of people, do you
really want each recipient to see a list of everyone you sent the
article to? Probably not. So use BCC. In Mail you keystroke
Command/Shift/B. This way all addresses are hidden from all recipients.
Try this, and include yourself as a recipient, so you can see what I
mean.
Back to top -- or bottom -- posting. Like many people responding to
Pogue, I choose to do a little of each, depending on the content of the
incoming. Sometimes I snip down to the part I want to answer and reply
beneath the snip. Sometimes I answer on top. One day I will develop my
own rules. Mouse Droppings, Corvallis OR