>From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chris Barker
>Sent: 04 September 2004 11:05
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] "top-posting"? was excessive quoting
>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
--snip
And this is bottom-posted.
Back in the 'old days', convention was to put replies to postings after the
quoted text. It was then very simple to follow the chronology of the
posting-exchange. Then along came Micros*ft with a different view of
things, meaning that Outlook makes top-posting the easy way for the poster
(and never mind the reader).
Piers
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