Re: A request
Re: A request
- Subject: Re: A request
- From: Joseph Weaks <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:39:36 -0600
On Jan 10, 2005, at 5:15 PM, Jon Pugh wrote:
At 10:33 PM +0000 1/10/05, Martin Orpen wrote:
Seriously, I've never, ever seen a defence of top-posting that made
any
sense.
The only value in top posting is when you need to keep the entire
reply thread around for the guy who only gets forwarded the 13th reply
and needs to read the whole thread.
Any other replies should trim the quotes and bottom post.
See, now I bottom post in a situation like this when I'm responding to
a specific issue subset of the topic as a whole. Namely, I
misunderstood what some of you are meaning by top posting. I think top
posting still demands editing of the quoted text that you are
forwarding along. You are right that many top posters do not do that,
and leave the whole thread quoted beneath. That is plain lazy and rude
and wrong. Anyone who lazily hits reply and then just types their
response at the top without reducing the quoted material deserves every
label some of you have been willing to throw around.
It seems the real issue at hand then is not top posting versus bottom
posting, but whether or not contributors reduce the clutter among the
text they quote.
Joe
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