[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] Top/Bottom Posting [WAS: Hello to en_GB team]

Sridhar Dhanapalan sridhar at dhanapalan.com
Thu Aug 31 13:36:57 BST 2006


On Thursday 31 August 2006 21:41, William Anderson <neuro at well.com> wrote:
> A quick list etiquette request: please trim your posts if all you're going
> to do is reply with one line of text.  18 kilobytes of email for 62 bytes
> of text is not optimal :)

I'm probably going to start a flamewar with this, but this is one reason why I 
discourage top-posting. Top-posters have a habit of leaving reams of text 
unnecessarily quoted below their message.

References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting
http://www.html-faq.com/etiquette/?toppost
http://mailformat.dan.info/quoting/bottom-posting.html
http://mailformat.dan.info/quoting/top-posting.html
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/email-style.html

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