List etiquette question

James Wilkinson james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Thu Nov 18 23:58:32 UTC 2004


John Burton wrote:
> If you have to scroll through endless pages of untrimmed posting 
> just to get to a 1 line "I agree", or "Good Point", or even "Oops, the 
> correct URL is..." then perhaps bottom posting is not the way to go.

Quite. In the first two cases, the way to go is probably not to post at
all.

(In the "wrong URL" case, then only the wrong URL plus a bit of context
needs to be quoted).

If readers are going to "have to scroll through endless pages of
untrimmed posting", there's no point in having it there in the first
place.

James.

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