Posted by J.O. Aho on 02/13/07 07:30

Steve wrote:
> "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote in message
> news:53b343F1rcfpjU1@mid.individual.net...
> | trashed wrote:
> | > Rik wrote:
> |
> | Please don't top-post and use a news-client that can quote properly too.
>
> aho,
>
> isn't top-posting when you intentionally set your date/time to the future

No, it's when you type your response above the text you are replying to, see
the link Rik gave.


> as for replying and making your response the first text seen, i prefer that.

You may, but not everyone and it a no if you would follow the netiquette.


> i hate having to scroll to see if
> someone answered in line or at the bottom of a post...especially the longer
> the post.

Yes, it's bad and against netiquette, to keep the whole original post and give
a short answer, you only keep the text you are replying to.
Something that is really annoying is that there are news clients that don't
filter away post footers, it starts to look really bad when a post has 3-4
previous posts footers too.


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//Aho

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