[Gllug] Gllug Digest, Vol 72, Issue 74

[John Winters]

Matthew Smith wrote:
[snip]
> Posting a reply at the top and then including the whole of the rest of 
> the thread is annoying, but surely having to scroll down through five 
> pages of text to get to the actual content of the message is just as 
> annoying, if not more?

Indeed, but nobody intelligent advocates either of these options.  The
ideal (which is often rather unfortunately and misleadingly referred to
as "bottom posting" - which it isn't) is to quote just enough to give
context and then add your comments to what you've quoted.

Lazy posters who just quote the whole of what came before and then add
their bit - whether at the top or at the bottom - will always find
themselves moaned at.

John
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