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Re: How to curtail top posting !!

John Cartmell <j...@cartmell.demon.co.uk>

In article <Z2l*sV...@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
   Chris Joseph <chr...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

> I agree that everyone /ought/ to be taught to post properly, but if
> you're reading a newsgroup where everyone else top-posts then it's
> politer and more sensible to conform to the local style.

It doesn't work. Unless you start with posts at the bottom and read up (from
the bottom line upwards) then top posting is still wrong.

Technically bottom posting is also wrong; you should interleve and snip as
required - but one extreme of interleving with short mails is the same as
bottom posting.

Like this.

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