[Wolves] Top posting

Old Dan dan at dannyboy.dnsalias.org
Fri Feb 20 10:11:56 GMT 2004


Matthew Revell wrote:
> 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.

I agree, although decent mail clients allow you to set them to start at 
the bottom rather than the top so you wouldn't have to do that even if 
tons of useless text were quoted.

-- 
Dan




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