[K12OSN] Bottom post

Jim McQuillan jam at mcquil.com
Tue Sep 28 00:25:17 UTC 2004


Sudev,

Bottom posting, top posting, interleaved posting.... It's all fine.

I just wish you would include a blank line between what you type, and
the original text.

It would make it soooo much easier to pick your reply out of the
message.

Thanks,
Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org


On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Sudev Barar wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 00:27, Henry Hartley wrote:
> > Ken Meyer wrote:
> > > It appears that it's time for the annual rehash of this issue, which
> > > is apparently a "sine qua non" for all geek-oriented lists.  So, my
> > > intuition is screaming to let this lie, as it too will pass; but
> > > apparently, I am going to ignore that internal advice yet again.
> >
> > What are you talking about?
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > >
> > > From: Roger
> > > Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 7:59 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Bottom post
> > >
> > > Around Mon,Sep 27 2004, at 10:45,  Jay Pfaffman, wrote:
> > >
> > >> the conversation and don't need to see the quoted text (since they
> > >> just read the other message).  Then it's a drag to have to scroll
> > >> down through the quoted text, which likely includes lots of stuff not
> > >
> > > Properly done, you would cut the lines of garbage that aren't
> > > relevant. Unlike top-posters that feel 80k of text is okay since it's
> > > down below. (no, yours wasn't 80k.)
> >
> > Oh, I see.  Never mind. ;-)
> Beautifully and amply clarified.
> Viva le bottom(post) ;-0
> --
> Sudev Barar
> Learning Linux
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