Re: [Mid] messages and formatting

Both Top and Bottom Posting have their places. In Effingham's examples,
bottom posting would be the way I would go. In this instance where I am
adding conversation not replying to a single question, then top seems more
appropriate. I don't even bother with interlaced posts. If I have to try
and decipher which is the new stuff and which the old I just hit delete. I
get far too many emails every day for that. However, by far the most
important thing to remember is to clip, snip, get rid of the excess. :)

> Actually top posting makes the conversation go faster and make more sense
> to me since I don't have to wade through lines of uncut commentary. I can
> open a post, read and move on or answer. I'm on a couple of lists where
> top posting (and cutting extraneous text and posting in plain text only)
> are mandatory and I must say those lists are joy to read. Personally I
> hate having to scroll through old posts to get to someone's new
> comments. I really hate when people break it down bit by bit adding their
> comments after someone's lines, and then posting a few more lines and
> commenting etc. etc. ad nauseum. Normally conversation doesn't flow that
way.
> Avacyn

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Received on Thu Oct 9 17:44:08 2003