problem on top-post

2014-08-14 Thread luofeiyu
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 resp

Re: problem on top-post

2014-08-14 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 15Aug2014 09:47, luofeiyu 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

Re: problem on top-post

2014-08-14 Thread John Gordon
In luofeiyu writes: > the best way is to excerpt only the relevent portions of the parent > message ,not top-post nor bottom-post , right? The followup text appears underneath the quoted parent message, thus bottom-post. -- John Gordon Imagine what it must be like for a real medical

Re: problem on top-post

2014-08-14 Thread Ben Finney
luofeiyu writes: > the best way is to excerpt only the relevent portions of the parent > message ,not top-post nor bottom-post , right? Correct; you should also interleave your responses in the context of the relevant quoted material. See at the link I provided for this style https://en.wikipedi

Re: problem on top-post

2014-08-14 Thread Ben Finney
John Gordon writes: > In luofeiyu > writes: > > > the best way is to excerpt only the relevent portions of the parent > > message ,not top-post nor bottom-post , right? > > The followup text appears underneath the quoted parent message, thus > bottom-post. “Bottom-post” usually refers to the

Re: problem on top-post

2014-08-15 Thread John Gordon
In Ben Finney writes: > "Bottom-post" usually refers to the inferior practice of quoting a > message (entirely or large amounts) and then indiscriminately responding > to all of it below all of the quoted text. I was unaware of that meaning. -- John Gordon Imagine what it must be lik