On 2005-10-26, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> James Stroud wrote:
>> On Tuesday 25 October 2005 00:31, Duncan Booth wrote:
>>> P.S. James, *please* could you avoid top-quoting
>>
>> Were it not for Steve Holden's providing me with a link off the list,
>> I would have never known to what it is you are referring. I have read
>> some relevant literature to find that this is more widely known as
>> "top-posting". I'll go with majority rules here, but I would like to
>> say that my lack of "netiquette" in this matter comes from
>> practicality and not malice.
>
> No, I didn't think it was malice which is why I just added what I
> considered to be a polite request at the end of my message. I assumed that
> most people either knew the phrase or could find out in a few seconds using
> Google so there wasn't much point in rehashing the arguments. Probably I
> should have equally lambasted Ron for the heinous crime of bottom-quoting.
>
> In general, there are three ways to quote a message: top-quoting, which
> forces people to read the message out of order;
Uh, no. Isn't what we're doing here top-quoting? The quoted
stuff is at the top. Everything is in chronological order. I
think what you're referring to is "top-posting".
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