Re: etiquette (top-posting or bottom posting)

"Thomas Clark" <thclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Peter Boettcher <boettcher@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"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.

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.

Then I guess we are in complete agreement! "Start afresh" is what
confused me... Sorry for the misplaced rebuke.

-Peter
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