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[Tim]

On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 12:07 -0500, Dale J. Chatham wrote:
> But to answer your question, I have *NEVER* posted this way.  You're 
> fighting over 15 years of training to do it otherwise.

Hmm, couldn't have been a real usenet user then...

> But, given 15 years, and this being the *ONLY* list (of upward of 50
> that I'm on) that insists on this standard, well, do the math.

And I've been on dozens of lists, of which none of them used top
posting.

By the way, despite the "bottom posting" name, the idea is *not* to
quote all of the prior message and respond under it.  But to remove all
of the prior post that isn't needed for your reply.  Like I've done.

Better still, is to intersperse your responses with the bits you're
responded to, like I did (otherwise known as "usenet style" posting).  

Or, for those cases, where you're replying to a huge amount of waffle
that defies easy editing, *briefly* summarise it before your response.
Those who really need to see the entire prior message can look at the
actual prior message.

Then the next person gets to read a coherent conversation, top to
bottom, and doesn't have to scroll up and down, all over the place, to
make sense of replies disconnected from what they're responding to.

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We don't put books back to front, nor the paragraphs.

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