Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:53:01 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Quoting
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

THANK YOU!!!!

At 12:50 PM 4/21/2005, you wrote:
>Except I've been top posting for the last 35 years and when I started
>top posting was the standard and in many places my last 10 jobs it
>was required for internal email.  So I have to wonder where this
>netiquette issue developed.
>
>Gayle
>
>Mike B. wrote:
>
> >At 12:39 PM 4/21/05 -0400, Gayle Surrette wrote:
> >
> >>I would hope so.  Luckily, my email software allows me to
> >>set top posting as a preference.  For the life of me I can't
> >>figure out why anyone would bottom post unless they were
> >>interspersing their answers throughout a long post.
> >>
> >
> >Top posting is almost universally denigrated on the internet and has been
> >for decades.  It's right up there with trimming posts as a part of
> >netiquette.  Not doing it will help avoid threads like this one...
> >
> >-- Mike B.
> >

Candy

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