[PLUG] top posting vs. bottom posting
Chris Healy
galamar at creative-designs-ltd.com
Tue Nov 4 23:22:01 UTC 2003
> From: Paul Johnson
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> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:23:24PM -0800, Chris Healy wrote:
> > For the purposes of example, let's pretend my above paragraph was
all I
> > had said.
> >
> > Where would you split my message to embed your response?
>
> Same as you would anywhere else. You still don't want to quote the
> other person's sig, there's no point.
Right :) You wouldn't quote the sig. So it wouldn't be splitting the
message and embedding the response, you'd just be quoting, and deleting
the irrelevant portions.
> > Most likely you wouldn't have. It would have become a bottom post
> > response.
>
> Though by coincidence and not by intent.
Ah, and a good example of how removing relevant quotes effects the whole
point. ;) The question I was answering was "What's wrong with this for
every message?" (Referring to an intermixed quote/response.) My response
(and example) being that not all messages can be logically split. Some
messages are kind of stuck being top or bottom posted. There's just
nowhere to split them ;)
-- Chris Healy
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