Re: Top posting and quoting (was Re: [PLUG] Hauppauge PVR-500 capture...)

["Chuckk Hubbard" <badmuthahubbard@gmail.com>]

Thanks for helping to explain things to me.  I don't object to clarity or editing, but to being explicitly told what sort of format to type in.  It's uncivilized.

On 11/3/07, Matthew Rosewarne <mrosewarne@inoutbox.com> wrote:

I believe what JP is saying isn't that one should quote the entire message and

I believe what JP is saying is that top-posting annoys him and so no one should do it unless absolutely required.  Somewhere along the line you removed all of the text of his complaint, so we could go on and on about what we think he's saying, as I see very often in mailing lists when people reply to what they think someone meant.
 

put your reply at the very bottom, but that one should quote only the
pertinent parts of the message and put your reply after that.  That way, it
keeps the amount of unnecessary quoting to a minimum and makes your reply
much easier to follow.

For those who read all of the messages in the thread, of course, sometimes.  Until someone starts a separate thread replying to things without quoting them!

-Chuckk

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