Re: etiquette (top-posting or bottom posting)

Peter Boettcher <boettcher@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
<muyy7fmpide.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>...
"Thomas Clark" <thclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I prefer to start afresh; quoting strands from previous
posts where applicable. I guess that's a kind of interleaved
response. It keeps threads shorter, too... It saves having
to scroll through a whole load of irrelevant stuff.

Please don't do that. Always quote at least a piece of
the message
you are replying to. Why? Because CSSM is not a web
forum at The
Mathworks. It is a distributed USENET newsgroup, where
messages get
lost (see the other messages in this thread), and
different people's
servers and clients have different retention times,
different methods
to fetch older articles in the same thread, etc, etc.

-Peter


Peter,

Perhaps you've never seen my posts.

What I meant by 'quoting strands from previous posts where
applicable' was to ensure that readers could follow the
flow; and determine what I was responding to. By 'quote' I
mean leave the > arrows in - I didn't mean re-format
messages with "..." instead.

That's most necessary, of course, in a long thread.

---

All,

Seems to me that there are plenty of different viewpoints.
All I'll say is that if I post a question, then if you're
taking the time and trouble to answer my query - do it in
whatever format you prefer!

Kind Regards

Tom


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