Re: top versus bottom posting

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:39:41 -0600, Jinx the Minx <jinxminx2@xxxxxxxxx>
muttered something like:

> Bottom posting was a good usenet convention back in the days when the
> internet and the people on it were less abundant. Now I find bottom posting
> an archaic tradition that doesn't meet the needs of today's usenet

My main argument against top-posting is that people who do it rarely trim
ANY quoted text. A real pain to read if you're getting your feed through
Google Groups, or reading a mailing list archive. But it's not worth
arguing about; I generally just delete unread the posts that have more
quoted text than new material, regardless of where they put their reply.

-Bertha
--
Never knock on Death's door. Ring the bell and run!
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