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On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Rhia Knowles wrote:
Well, I read mails from here in Gmail, which turns the conversation into a threaded view, and hide the quoted text. I top post cos it;s email standard these days, unless there is specific chunks i want to reply to.
To posting is not an email standard it's an abhorration used by those who came into the game late, hand-fed by the lazy microsoft engine.
For googness sake - just how hard it is to posituin the mouse pointer at the end of the document trim off all the unneeded signatures and start to type?
Now you're going to lose the proper mening of this thread because I'm going to trim it.
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A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: The lost context.
Q: What makes top-posted replies harder to read than bottom-posted?
A: Yes.
Q: Should I trim down the quoted part of an email to which I'm replying?
Gordon
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