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Subject: Re: etiquette (top-posting or bottom posting)
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:29:45 -0500
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Jason wrote:
> Personally I prefer top posting and would use it on most 
> forums I contribute to. However interweaving has it 
> advantages when multiple points need addressed. Since the 
> posts on here are usually short and concise then 
> inerweaving isn't really called for, imo. 
> 
> I think snipping was important in bygone days on the likes 
> of distribution lists when bandwidth was a problem. 
> Therefore it's not important these days - apart from the 
> annoyance factor.
...

May be your preference but we'll see where the overall group comes in -- 
as Steve Lord points out, top posting destroys the flow.  As older 
participant, I think top posting only became a problem really when a 
vendor of widely used software put out a reader that defaults to leaving 
the cursor at the top of the quoted text instead of the bottom...

The "apart from" portion of the reason for snipping is _far_ more 
important than your post would make it seem, and there are still 
significant numbers of users for which bandwidth is an issue (including 
this one)...

A reinforcing vote for bottom-posting and judicious trimming w/ 
interleaved if it is appropriate for a given thread being an acceptable 
alternative.  Top-posting strictly verboten would be my technique in 
writing a user interface...

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