[sylpheed:37132] Re: Quoting Styles
Anton Shepelev
anton.txt at gmail.com
Sat Jun 11 18:38:10 JST 2022
Craig:
> Steve O'Hara-Smith:
> > Duke Normandin:
> >
> > > ** Bottom-posting, text-only is the netiquette way! **
> >
> > Interleaved posting with careful trimming of
> > quotes if you please.
>
> A. It inverts the order people normally read.
> Q. Why is top-posting so bad?
> A. Top-posting.
> Q. What is the worst thing in email and USENET postings?
Interleaved posting *is* bottom-posting: you accurately
quote fragments of a previous message and reply to them
below each individual quotation. I don't think anybody
ever interpreted bottom-posting as replying under one huge
quotation of the entire previous message (as I did here :-)
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