Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:44:52 +0200 From: "Eelke Blok" <e.blok@ieee.org> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: MT: top-posting Message-ID: <006701c1183d$06e49580$0215e50a@hotrod> References: <15203.62084.40909.149342@guru.mired.org> <20010729080030.A41709@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> <001f01c11838$b8c46b40$0215e50a@hotrod> <01072909280903.00715@mutt.home.net>
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From: "David Leimbach" <leimbacd@bellsouth.net> [Snip: quote of entire message regarding quoting at the top or bottom] > I think its more difficult to comment on what was said all the way down here. That is because you didn't do something that should go hand in hand with top-quoting: editing of the quoted text. Take out anything that is not relevant to your response. If that still leaves you with large quotes, summarize them between []. This is the exact misguided (sorry for the term, I don't mean to offend you, but I can't think of any other) argument many people that prefer top-posting use. If you feel people wouldn't want to go over the entire message again and again, why include it in the first place? It just wastes bandwidth, because it was already sent itself sometime. The quote should really only be a reminder as to the context of the answer or comment you're giving. If people really would like to read the original message, they can usually find it archived somewhere. Cheers, Eelke -- Eelke Blok, http://haywire.student.utwente.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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