Isn't this a bit outdated? I think it goes back to a time when bandwidth was rare and mailboxes filled up quickly.
I appreciate the style in inline posting as one of several to choose from. However, isn't it okay to "quote as needed" and leave the string attached in the order it was intended?
Of course, I am a bit of a troll.
Maybe I'm wrong with this?
What do you think, Melinda?
Kevin White
Troll in Recovery
Terry Goodman <tiji@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun May 28, 2006, Melinda Smith wrote:
>I just read the article I am about to link to on top posting.
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting
>It recommends inline posting which Terry Goodman does. Goodman
>responds by interspersing his responses amongst the original text. One
>thing Goodman does not do is trim excess. The wikipedia page suggested
>trimming the text and leaving people only the idea what you are
>responding to.
<snip>
I almost always trim, Melinda -- and I'm surprized that you haven't
noticed over the past several years. My recent netiquette replies
were a rare exception, with only a few quoted sentences in excess,
anyway. Some individuals who post to Pacifica lists routinely
complain when their original is snipped in a reply, implying that the
respondent is deviously hiding something or mischaracterizing what
they wrote. I wanted to avoid embarrassing the maker of any such
complaint this time with an additional
space-wasting response, as the
trim recommendation was already there within the message and in the
referenced external links.
Ref:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewPacifica/files/Members/slyde_phaeder/TLG_NewPacifica.html
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