Ken Elliott wrote:
> Chad >>so as to avoid top-posting confusion, my response is at the bottom.
>
> Woops! Sorry, I forgot to insert the quote. I hate it when I do that...
>
> Confusion? Really?
>
> I do find it interesting that several folks on the list bottom post, while
> other top post. I remember the bad old days when I would get email with
> pages of old stuff at the top, requiring me to scroll through the entire
> document before I could read the latest response. Top posting was a pretty
> good idea. I much prefer top posted messages over bottom posts. Since
> there does not appear to be complete agreement among all parties as to a
> single method,
>
> I prefer top posting, as it is kind to my tired old fingers, and I can read
> a batch of messages much quicker. But to each his own...
>
I just try to make sure things flow in the order most logical to a Western-style
literate mind, and I make sure to prune stuff not relevant to the current reply
so that a simple discussion doesn't turn into three-megabyte file downloads
(slight exaggeration). Part of what makes bottom-posting work better for me is
the simple fact that when doing the snip-answer-snip-answer thing, replying
point by point, bottom-posting is the way each section is treated, and there's
really no top-posting way to handle that.
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