[Wolves] Top posting

Matthew Revell wolveslug at understated.co.uk
Fri Feb 20 09:49:59 GMT 2004


Old Dan wrote:

>>> Can we please stop top-posting so I can have some idea of what's 
>>> going on.
>>>
>> Surely top posting has its advantages. There are times where you may 
>> not want to address everything individually, or force someone to read 
>> an entire thread before reaching your contribution, but you still 
>> want to provide background.
>
> It's the leaving of tons of text under your comment which is the 
> annoying bit.
>
I find it more annoying to have to scroll down a whole load of quoted 
text to get to the reply. I think the problem is not one of top or 
bottom quoting but rather careful selection of what is quoted.



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