[TriLUG] Digression: Top- vs Bottom-posting

[Brian Henning]

> For pure bottom posting you've got a point. On the other hand, my
> preference is for in-context posting

Ack!  This is in no way a personal attack..  But I think trying to find
needles of reply scattered through the haystack of back-quoted thread is the
worst...  Again, it's a problem that can be mitigated through appropriate
snipping..  I can understand the desire for the context that inlined
responses help create.

~B
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale at gmail.com>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Digression: Top- vs Bottom-posting


> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:54:30 -0400, Lee <elfick at trilug.org> wrote:
> > As I just said in IRC:
> > Snip it all and let gmail sort it out!
>
> For pure bottom posting you've got a point. On the other hand, my
> preference is for in-context posting, or what might be called
> incremental bottom posting.  If someone replies to a long message
> without trimming and just says something like "me too" then it doesn't
> matter if it's top-posted or bottom posted, either way it sucks. Then
> problem is that such creatures aren't going to bother to snip either
> way.
>
> > If you archived every message, you wouldn't need to worry about this
> > whole top vs bottom posting thing.
>
> Then what we have to worry about <G>
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