In <[email protected]>, on 07/29/2012
at 11:32 AM, Gord Tomlin <[email protected]> said:
>While there is an RFC (I'm not going to hunt for the number on a
>Sunday) that specifies that bottom posting is "correct",
More precisely, it specifies that a response follow the text being
responded to and that you not quote text you are not responding to. A
better term might be "interspersed bottom posting".
>When reading a thread in order, bottom posting requires the
>reader to scroll past what has already been written.
The standard Internet posting style is to quote each snippet that you
are responding to and to follow it with the response, not quoting
anything else. If you do that, then the reader can see the context
without scrolling through large amounts of extraneous material.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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