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Re: Top posting (a different point of view)



Top posting considered harmful.
http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting

On Thursday June 9 2005 4:22 pm, John Carline wrote:

> But, it would make my reading/following of threads much easier if I 
> didn't  have to scroll down to the bottom of post after post in a 
> long string just to read the one line added to the 200 I've already 
> read.   

Part of proper quoting is removing the parts that you're *not* 
responding to.  Failing to remove irrelevant text is a function of 
poor netiquette encouraged by top posting.  Search Google Groups and 
observe how people very rarely included the entire prior post or top 
posted before Microsoft's top-post-by-default clients hit the net.

-- 
Paul Johnson
Email and Instant Messenger (Jabber): baloo@ursine.ca
http://ursine.ca/~baloo/

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