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> Does anyone really believe this is an example of a proper response and > not simple brazen laziness? Yes, I do. I know of news clients that do just this. Do what? If I had top-posted you could know without going back to the thread. Or perhaps I should include context in my response like any normal person writing a snail-mail letter would - but I've been told that is just a waste of effort since we live in a digital age where it is so easy to quote the original message. Can we have it both ways? Sure, but it takes work - and when it takes work there will _always_ be people who don't go to the effort. Human nature. These news clients are real slick - just press a key and all quoted text disappears. Press it again and it reappears. Real slick. In summary... it doesn't matter; it's personal preference. Like newlyweds debating how to squeeze the toothpaste. <ducks to avoid netiquette flames> Netiquette matters. The number of people (relatively speaking) that feel top-posting is a horrid breach of netiquette is about equivalent (in my experience) to the number of people who feel bringing your spoon towards you in your soup is a horrid breach of etiquette. --=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 --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+2h65/JjozeCq1GARAvYrAKC0Yu0b/vPh6lUEJcclVOJ7SYgOAwCdGOpg 6vGqAn4Afic7VMkcWwfO3zo= =mwo4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q--
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