Re: Transit Strike

Old_Timer wrote: 
On 23 Dec 2005 13:54:30 -0800, "AndyS" <andysharpe@xxxxxxxx> wrote:


Because top posting is the way everyone should post.  And then they
should
snip out everything except what they are replying to. --- Joan F


Andy replies:

 I disagree.  Look at how I did this reply.  JM does the same.
We paste the particular statement we are replying to , together with
the name of the poster.

 THEN , we add our own comments.

In this way, the reader can first see the issue, and then the response.
And none of this cut and paste stuff where lengthy and drawn out
wordiness
is pasted , followed by an insignificant comment........

While I can't state that "this is the way it should be done", I can say
that this is the way "I" do it,  and unless I see a better technique
used, I'll stay with it.  And in 10 years, I haven't seen a better
way...

Any redundant wordiness crap in MY posts are due to me..   :>)))))

Likewise for insignificant comments  :>))))

Andy 



Andy S - The criticism that is sometimes invoked when one posts in the
fashion you just described is that the poster is "editing the original
statement" to change the gist of it.

Old_Timer

Exactly.
While it feels correct to insert topic by topic, there is always the temptation
for the second or third poster to edit.
Likewise irritating is removing the entire original post, so no one can tell
who is being responded to or who said what previously.
Top or bottom is fine with me, as long as the original post is left in tact.

D
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