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Posted by Rik on 01/21/07 00:51
Tim Roberts wrote:
> Most people top-post because Microsoft chose to write Outlook and
> Outlook Express with blatent (and perhaps intentional) disregard for
> the established patterns. Those people top-post because they are use
> the defaults without thinking and without knowing any better.
Hurray for OE-Quotefix...
> Personally, I don't think it makes a bit of difference. Most people
> quote way, way, WAY too much as it is; thanks to threading
> newsreaders, all I need is the briefest reminder of what we were
> talking about for context. When you cut quoting to a minimum, the
> top/bottom thing becomes irrelevant.
Quoting should always be at the top. And the reason to quote is something
dear to me: in usenet, on thousands of servers, not every post get's
through, and sometimes not even in the right order. So the quote is there
to inform people who might not see the previous what was there, or at least
in which direction this particular (sub) thread goes. Without the quote, I
have no idea what the original post/topic/question was, which is highly
frustrating... and unfortunately with a somewhat buggy newsserver atm not a
very rare occurance for me.
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Rik Wasmus
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