Re: Extra data in posts

I'm sorry, I missed that. Did you actually write anything? I don't see
anything in the first inch of the message ;)

Adam

James Zuelow wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 July 2006 20:00, Greg Madden wrote:
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>> One reason for bottom posting is for lists, like Debians, that are
>> archived. Researching a topic and finding the thread that follows bottom
>> posting is an easier way to read an entire thread on a topic.
>>
>> That said, when I am doing more personal email and already what I said
>> they said , a top post is quick and easy to get the latest response.
>>
>
> Top posters tend to leave the trailers on the bottom of their messages. The lines on some mailing lists that say "to unsubscribe..."
>
> After a short time you get a bunch of those collected at the bottom of the message (which nobody is reading, since they're only reading the top few lines), which just wastes bandwidth -- especially when the top posts are all one line 'me too!' responses.
>
> Bottom posters and especially comment inserters tend to clean up a little more, since they are more likely to have read the message they're replying to.
>
> Anyway - it used to be that bottom posting was The Right Thing To Do (TM), especially on usenet, and top posting was for people without netiquette. Then we got Outlook - it fights you when you want to kill HTML, it fights you when you want to bottom post, it fights you when you want to (gasp!) insert comments...
>
> Now we have people who won't even read this message because it's bottom posted!
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