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I prefer to think of my personal e-mail as writing a letter and as far as I know it has never been good etiquette to send someones letter back to them with your comments on what they say written between the lines. I find this type of replying (in *personal* correspondance) lazy and quite aggressive.

The only forgivable exception is when the sender is using HTML e-mail, but that is only because HTML mail and proper quoting don’t mix too well. However, HTML mail really shouldn’t be used either.

I like to receive replies that are top posted because I can quickly see the response. For comments I prefer oldest to newest so I can see the context.

And I agree with the comment about poor or missing subjects. That’s like designing a Web page with a title/H1 that have no relevance to the content of the page!

Hear, hear!!!

And I agree with the comment about poor or missing subjects. That’s like designing a Web page with a title/H1 that have no relevance to the content of the page!

Kris,

Good point! As soon as more two parties are involved, I’d recommend interleaved posting.

Joe,

Well, I do hope that the quality of my (or anyone else’s, for that matter) e-mails will be judged by many more factors than just the posting style…

Bottom posting may be acceptable if you’re in a hurry or if it’s a short message.

But the courteous way is to intersperse your replies with the heavily edited original message.

Top posting is common because it’s encouraged by email applications like MS Outlook. That’s what we have at the office, so I’ll have to admit to top posting myself, simply because it’s too difficult to do anything else with that POS software. Mea culpa.

I can’t count the number of times I’ve gotten replies back from people who use top-posting, and they only address the first of serveral questions in an email. I prefer interleaving because I can be sure that I’m replying to each individual point and not missing anything.

I agree, although I have to be careful when replying to someone’s extra long list of questions/comments that I don’t end up sounding sarcastic.

When replying I also remove anything from the original email that my reply doesn’t address, like offhand remarks that don’t need any response. I try to keep the part I quote from them to the bare minimum so that there’s less scrolling for them.

Whoops—Good point again.

When replying I also remove anything from the original email that my reply doesn’t address, like offhand remarks that don’t need any response. I try to keep the part I quote from them to the bare minimum so that there’s less scrolling for them.

I only top post in reply to other top posts and when the message has already been destroyed by several top posters (and is 200 KB in size).

Are top posters the same people who like reading comment threads in reverse order?

Oh, interleaved posting is da bomb.

Kris also makes a good point.

My other pet peeve is when someone replies to one of my emails a week later and doesn’t include my original email. They may be responding to something I asked…but without the context I don’t have any idea what they’re talking about…my memory is just not that good.

And finally: People who don’t write good subjects for their emails…or don’t write one at all. I’m trying to scan my email for a particular one and I can’t find it because they all have either useless, or missing subjects.

Writing emails is an art….

It gets worse when a top-posted discussion is being forwarded to someone who was’t included into this pingpong game. And there lies the advantage of bottom-posting: if you always bottom-post, even when it is just a short reply, the conversation will have a much bigger chance of making sense later on, when it has evolved into a discussion.