-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I just read the guidelines at http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html and have one question. I understand the general concept of inline posting, which is what you are advocating in this document, (not to be confused with bottom-posting, quoting the entire message and posting at the bottom, as I understand it). But is it OK to simply reply to a message if your reply states the context clearly enough without quoting? My mail reader is threaded, and keeps everything in conversation form, so as I am reading messages, I would rather not look at the same stuff I have seen 15 times already. In addressing multiple points one-by-one, this could be useful, but I see a lot of messages either completely bottom-posted because the user just knows "Don't top-post" or messages that have quotes nested 4 or even 5 levels deep. As long as the thread remains unbroken, this should be unnecessary, since those of us with threaded mail readers have already seen the top-most message 4 or 5 times. I would suggest that something be added concerning multilevel quoting. And I hope no one minds that I haven't quoted anything at all in this post since I have hopefully made my point contextual enough to stand on its own. Let me know if not. ;-)
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