[Gllug] Top-quoting

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Wed Jul 30 10:49:25 UTC 2003


On Wednesday, 30 Jul 2003, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
>It's sensible for the cursor to be at the top of the message, as that makes
>it easier for interleaved posting,  where the replies reply directly to
>each point raised AT the point in the article where they are raised...

Indeed. I think the real problem is the;

[cursor]
[blank line]
--- Original Message ---
[4 lines that are a fugly attribution line]
[quoted text]

format - _that_ encourages top-quoting.

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