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Old January 24th, 2005, 08:29 PM
Trevor Best
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Terry Kreft wrote:
Lyn,
People can get quite vehement about top and bottom posting.

Essentially theadvantage of consistent bottom posting is that you can read
through the posts in sequence.

The advantage of top posting is that when you use a preview pane the
previewed content tends to be the last post.


Lazybones :-)

On the subject of trimming, you should really trim previous posts to what is
relevant to your post, in the past people could get quite nasty about not
trimming posts, this has become less of an issue though since the advent of
fast internet links and large storage space.


Now it's the people who normally smite the non-snippers getting lazy :-)

Personally I'm a rabid top-poster and trim when I remember to do so,
speaking of which


On the subject of the vehement discussions (negotiations with a light
sabre? g) I don't usually smite top posters but if ask my opinion I
give it :-)

Well, at least your sig sep works so your quoted post was automatically
snipped :-)

I also hate people who end every paragraph with a smiley :-)

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