[TriLUG] Digression: Top- vs Bottom-posting

Michael Thompson thompson at easternrad.com
Mon Aug 30 14:34:25 EDT 2004


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Wow, there seems to be...

<continued below>

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

...many ways...

| I think trying to find needles of reply scattered through the haystack
of back-quoted thread is the
| worst...

...of doing things.

|>>As I just said in IRC:
|>>Snip it all and let gmail sort it out!

*THIS* way...

|>>If you archived every message, you wouldn't need to worry about this
|>>whole top vs bottom posting thing.

...is probably...

|>Then what we have to worry about <G>

...most annoying as it incorporates *all* mentioned methods.

But it seems there's a time and place for everything.  I've actually
used all three mentioned methods (this is the first time I've used them
all at once...)  <grin>

Another $.02, which is still less than $.10 worth of info from me
today...  ;)

- --mike



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