Sorry to be so blunt, I'll try to explain what I mean. But for those who are too lazy to do this (nearly everyone except us throwbacks) and as a result end up quoting the entire email, I find in this case top posting to be far more practical and sensible than bottom posting. ![]() Still insists that the proper method is to prune your quoted reply text to the relevant context and reply inline. On a mailing list or active thread among many people, it quickly becomes tiresome to constantly scroll down to the start of the reply for every new email that comes in. However after having lived in the real world for a while, I find the practice of full bottom posting to be far more annoying than full top posting (where "full" means the entire quoted text is preserved). I used to feel this way too, being one of the more pedantic, elitist, hardcore, old school netiquette snobs around. Proper netiquette which, apparently, nobody remembers or follows. ![]() ![]() You see, that way you can actually read the discussion from top to bottom, just like a book, and have all the relavent information in proper order.
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