David R. Litwin wrote: > > Concerning top-posting, > <snip>
> you should intersperse your comments just after the material to > which you're replying > > > In that case, I'll disperse my replies within the text. A wise move. > The only reason I've been deleting is that, on another fairly > high-volume mailing list (WOT-DM: Wheel of Time - Dragonmount), we had > a similar issue: Nearly all of the members have Gmail and so not > deleting the prior stuff gets every one quite livid, I. E. having all > the previous messages under the newest one. Yeah, that problem is addressed also in the "Top-Posting" thread. Not only is it recommended to intersperse your replies, trimming excess material, while leaving enough for context, is also recommended. You did rather well in this last reply. PS. I think a lot of people are hesitant to use their "good" email addresses on this list, such as a Gmail account, because the list mail is publicly archived, and spammers tend to scrape addresses from the archives. Cheers! -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]