On Thursday 07 April 2005 06:31, Robert Johnston wrote: > On Apr 7, 2005 7:18 AM, David George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Scrolling down is only a problem because a lot of the bottom posters > > don't properly trim their quotes to the relevant portion they are > > replying to. You just have to laugh when someone replies after the > > quote and leaves 5 copies of the mailing list signatures. :-)
Heh, yeah, I love that. Even more fun when several user sigs are left in too.
> Trimming quotes is a problem, wether it's top or bottom posting. But
> with bottom-posting (Or interleaving a reply under its relevant quote)
> it's easier to see what's relevant. Only keep what YOU'RE replying to.
> If it's not relevant to your message, it gets snipped. And if there is
> a LOT of information cut, use a <snip /> to show a lot of information
> has been truncated.
I'm quite picky about this subject myself, I usually trim the living hell out
of anything I reply to, even going so far as to manually fix funky line
breaks and quoting.
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