Re: why setting 'sig_on_top' is not recommended?
2005/12/22, Derek Martin <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> But, putting the signature before the quoted text implies that one is
> going to write their message at the top; i.e. top post. No one signs
> messages first and then writes their message below that. So it's
> a perfectly reasonable conclusion that Zhiquiang intends to top post,
> even if in the end that conclusion is incorrect.
>
Thank you all for the information. I searched the list archive and
read your discussion carefully. I didn't know anything about the
"impoliteness" about top-posting. Actually, we always top-post in our
lab. Today I know this is not true for all.
Since many mail clients add signature at the buttom, when I reply to a
long conversation with many turns of reply, or get a forwarded long
conversation, I can not clearly recognize who said what. While at the
buttom of the email, lots of signatures were listed, which my own
added at the lowest position. It is ugly, so I want to put the
signature near my reply. So I posted this question in this list.
After I read these follow-up messages, I learned much. I think I know
what to do now: when I top-post, I will put the siganure at the top of
all the quoted text, and remove the "--" mannually, to avoid all the
below be treated as "signature"; when I reply the mailists question by
question, I will delete some quoted text properly, and reply just
below the corresponding statement, and add signature at the bottom.
Thank you all again.
--
Zhiqiang Ye
PHD candidate
College of Lifesciences, Center for Bioinformatics
Peking University, Beijing.