what's bottom quoting?
quoting the message you are responding to at the bottom of your message, rather than responding after it. the worst form of bottom quoting is the one where someone quotes a 300 line post and on top of it adds "me too" or "i disagree" or some such one-liner.
there are some cases where bottom quoting is valid, such as when you wish to enclose the message you are responding to, purely for reference. apart from that, imho, if you are responding to points raised in a post, you break your response up into chunks with the text your are responding to, followed by your response. example:
on 13th january, 2003 joanna bujes wrote: > > i think george bush is quite a hottie. he has beautiful eyes. >
what you must be nuts! the guy squints!!!
> > and he has a nice butt too! >
perhaps you are still referring to his head that is stuck up in there?
--ravi ;-)
