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* Stuart Jansen [Tue, 18 Mar 2003 at 10:50 -0700] > > Middle posting is good too, in fact it's sometimes better. >=20 > You're wrong. Middle posting is _always_ better. And you're right. Even better than top-posting. (which I still prefer to bottom-posting) > Top posting and not trimming are almost the same thing, in my opinion. > One feeds off the other. Top posting is slightly more evil, though, > because it puts the comment before the context. And what's wrong with that? The whole argument for all this cut&paste mumbo-jumbo is that we don't need the whole message to communicate effectively. Directly responding to context (like I'm doing here) is common practice but I think many would agree that it is a product of laziness (together with habit because for some technical things it is clearly the right way). When I'm not in a hurry or lazy, I try to remove all quotations and let my email stand on its own. Now if I could be in less of a hurry and less lazy more often...=20 Overall, "De gustibus non disputandum est." (There's no accounting for taste) ;-) And to add some value to this thread: once I used a mail client (actually I think it was a compuserve forum manager: NavCIS?) that would only include the part that you had highlighted when you hit reply. That was cool. --=20 Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460 --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+d3yB/JjozeCq1GARAhR6AJ9BFF9x5d8u3UkRYBy6r0DRPeOakgCgvL2+ DggBlBDXzxc+wBXRsyacT2s= =hzIG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZPt4rx8FFjLCG7dd-- ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
