Mr. Shuttleworth gets quote mined (and probably should blog to clear this up)

Arwyn Hainsworth arwynh+ubuntu at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 17:43:41 BST 2007


On 25/06/07, Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> * "Arwyn Hainsworth"
>
> | However with top posting you don't have to read the same quoted text
> over
> | and over again, in every message sent in the thread.
>
> Not if people actually trim what they're not replying to.


But then you lose part of the context in which the original statement was
made, so people joining half-way through could get confused. Both ways have
their pluses and minuses.

Personally I prefer the well phrased message + full message history attached
FYI (IE top-posting).

Arwyn
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