Re: [SLE] Top posting (WAS: Re: [SLE] Printing quality)

From: Patrick Shanahan (paka_at_wahoo.no-ip.org)
Date: 01/27/04

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    Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:48:01 -0500
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    * Paul W. Abrahams <abrahams@acm.org> [01-27-04 13:37]:
    > On Monday 26 January 2004 10:25 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
    > > * Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> [01-26-04 22:02]:
    >
    > - - - - -
    >
    > > Well, I have corrected your top-posting and trimmed the superfluous
    > > full quote under. Please don't top post and trim your posts.
    >
    > What is top-posting? And what practices do you advocate about trimming
    > messages to which one is responding? I don't think there's any agreed-upon
    > convention about this.

    Answering at the top of a mail and sending. Top-posting promotes full
    quoting since most people do not look any further. And how do you
    carry on a conversation when you answer questions before they are asked?

    > My approach is to put the original message first (to set the context) and to
    > trim most everything from it that isn't relevant to the response.

    Sounds good to me. We have a plan. 

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Patrick Shanahan                        Registered Linux User #207535
http://wahoo.no-ip.org                        @ http://counter.li.org
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