Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)
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- Subject: Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)
- From: Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz>
- Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 06:11:19 +1200
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On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 04:03:05PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> Bottom posting has been since long the preferred method for newsgroups
> and then mailing lists but not for forums nor business communications.
>
> A bottom posting style does not mean "all the stuff goes to the bottom"
Yes it does! That is what bottom posting is.
> but put in chunks between context, replying inline, as Wikipedia article
> says ("interleaved style").
There is also "conversation style" or "interleaved style" which is the
tried and proven preferred way for mailing lists; i.e the style you and
many others use.
If I was using "bottom posting" I'd have just dumped everything at the
bottom regardless.
--
"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
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