On 15Aug2014 09:47, luofeiyu <elearn2...@gmail.com> wrote:
when i search what top-post mean:

top-post: n., v. [common] To put the newly-added portion of an email or
   Usenet response before the quoted part, as opposed to the more logical
   sequence of quoted portion first with original following.
bottom-post: v. In a news or mail reply, to put the response to a news or
[...]
   existed. Hackers consider that the best practice is actually to excerpt
   only the relevent portions of the parent message, then intersperse the
   poster's response in such a way that each section of response appears
   directly after the excerpt it applies to. [...]
   the best way isĀ  to excerpt only the relevent portions of the parent
   message ,not top-post nor bottom-post , right?

Generally, yes.

It is what we try to use in this list, and applies in most technical forums.

It makes replies read like a conversation, too.

Thanks,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>

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