* Paul W. Abrahams <abrahams@acm.org> [01-27-04 13:37]:
On Monday 26 January 2004 10:25 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> [01-26-04 22:02]:
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Well, I have corrected your top-posting and trimmed the superfluous full quote under. Please don't top post and trim your posts.
What is top-posting? And what practices do you advocate about trimming messages to which one is responding? I don't think there's any agreed-upon convention about this.
Answering at the top of a mail and sending. Top-posting promotes full quoting since most people do not look any further. And how do you carry on a conversation when you answer questions before they are asked?
My approach is to put the original message first (to set the context) and to trim most everything from it that isn't relevant to the response.
Sounds good to me. We have a plan. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org