Re: OT--(was: Taking on city hall) Top Posting

On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:36:24 +1100, with neither quill nor qualm, Bill
Lee <billTakeThisOutlee+usenet@xxxxxxx> quickly quoth:
--snip--

>At the end of the day, it's about communication. If you can save one
>reader a few seconds, then you have saved hundreds if not thousands the
>same time - it all adds up. And they will thank you for it: not
>necessarily by overt actions, but in the overall impression that your
>postings make on them ("Win Friends and Influence People"). That is why
>bottom posting after appropriate quoting has been found over the years
>to be the best quoting method.

Good post, Bill. Bottom or interstitial posting is the way to go.

short quote of crucial text from original message
new text

quoted text
new text, etc.


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