Rant on netiquette (was: Re: [thelist] Please trim, please don't top post.)

[Ed McCarroll]

In my opinion:

> > 1. Top posting. [a]
> >
> > There are many reason why I find Top Posting easier to read.

> This is not as easy to do when you need to try and work of who wrote 
> what because the answer is mixed in with the email that they are 
> responding to.

A little bit of prefixing/indentation should make the conversation clear,
which is the point in the first place.

> > 2. Lack of trimming. [b]

Quoting more than you need is inconsiderate, and muddies your point.  Good
communication takes several times as long to write as to read.

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