Top posting in a meandeing thread was: Re: Fedora - time to blink

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon Nov 28 11:58:47 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 21:49 +1100, Roger wrote:
> Also consider that with several contributors commenting on the same
> post it gets boring scrolling down each one through the same
> information
> Roger

That's why you edit.  Whatever posting style you use, you need to edit.
You can't keep every single prior post in a thread in the message.
Sure, that works for three emails going back and forth on a business
deal, it doesn't for hundreds of emails, with very long threads, on a
list server.

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