[dundee] top posting / bottom posting

Robert Ladyman it at file-away.co.uk
Tue Aug 24 13:32:41 UTC 2010


...but the claims for bottom posting are that it enables one to read the 
entire message in order: but if you've trimmed it you can't do that, can you?

> 
> The thing with bottom posting and the point you make about too much
> scrolling, is that your supposed to snip away bits of the message that
> aren't relevant to your reply to keep the thing looking sane.
> 
> And can people really not see that top posting really screws up the
> ability to have threaded discussions!?
> 
> Andrew
> 

...but the claims for bottom posting are that it enables one to read the 
entire message in order: but if you've trimmed it you can't do that, can you?

(I now claim to have invented sandwich posting: it allows you to feed me in  
troll-mode).

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