On 4/9/2015 11:21 AM, Carl Zwanzig <c...@tuunq.com> wrote:
> On 4/9/2015 8:07 AM, Mike Starr wrote:
>> Great example (below) of why I don't like bottom posting

> I'd say it was a much better example of not trimming content and making it 
> presentable; the quoted part could have been cut to 4-5 lines and preserved 
> the context for reply. (And the list footer wasn't needed at all.)

Correct - this is what I meant when I said the vast majority of people
who prefer bottom posting - and refer to it by that name - do NOT mean
'blindly quoting an entire message, signatures, footers and all, and
adding their reply beneath it all'.

To promote such as a reasonable way to interact on mailing lists would
be the height of absurdity.
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