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G.A.M. wrote:
> Do people here prefer top-posting or bottom posting? (See
> definition below.) I usually use top-posting, but I see a
> lot of people here using bottom posting. 
> 
> Also, what's the group's consensus on quoting the original
> post? Should we snip it down to the minimum or keep it all?

I prefer interleaving, and I try to leave some whitespace between quoted 
blocks and my text to make it easier to read.

Top-posting is evil, and so is bottom-posting if you don't trim the 
quotes.  Here is the newsgroup netiquette:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/comics/xbooks/readpost/section-4.html
http://www.faqs.org/docs/jargon/T/top-post.html

Dan