Michael
Forgive me, but what is "top-posting" or "bottom-posting" and how does
it matter?
And how does doing one or the other prevent people from simply quoting
only that which is necessary for the thread to be comprehensible when
someone reads a post halfway through a thread?
Chris
On 4 Sep 2004, at 10:10, Michael Kopp wrote:
>
> Valid point ... but ...
>
> When people stop top-posting and get their threading right, then this
> request will make sense and I will worry about it -- and the digest
> will work right and be burstable into individual messages for people
> who want to see them that way.
>
> The anarchy that is, is ... anarchic.
>
> Trimming is one thing, but having to rearrange top-posting to
> bottom-posting so that threading is preserved is much harder. At the
> moment, neither is worth the time, I'm afraid.
>
> Sorry if this means the digests get longer, but you'll have to
> persevere.
>
> Cheers from the Antipodes,
>
> Michael Kopp
> Wellington, New Zealand
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