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[tlug] Better to have "bottom-posted"?



On 2009-11-09 21:14 +0900 (Mon), Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> nlin writes:
> 
>  > Aargh, sent to the list instead of private reply! Grr, gmail....
> 
> And top posted both times .....

...which wasted less of my time than if he'd included the two-line response
after the fifty lines of quoting.

Hands up, how many would rather have had to wade through fifty lines of
quotes first to get down to the point where they could read the two line
response and see that it wasn't relevant to them?

cjs
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