Hello Todd, Am Freitag, 29. Februar 2008 schrieb Todd Augsburger: > P.S. Group, why is "bottom posting" so doggone important? The dokuwiki webpage about the mailing list http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:mailinglist describes this very brief: >> * When answering don't quote the whole thread, just leave some context to >> understand what you are relating to >> * Write your answer below the quoted text (this make it easier to follow >> longer conversations) Bottom posting doesn't mean: the whole post you are replying to at the top and then answer at the bottom. It means: Only the snippet from the orignal mail that you want to answer (or have more questions) as a quote (lines starting with "> ") directly in front of your text. This makes it very easy to get the point. > It only makes it > harder for me to read in my mailreader (both at work and home), This is only a problem with mailreaders that are not aware of web standards. In a "good" Mailreader all quotes are rendered in another color so it is very easy to read only the new text -- and use the quote only if the context is unclear. > it makes it > difficult to see where the old post ends and the new one begins, Yes, if one don't uses regular quoting with "> " it is very difficult to distinguish between the old cited text and the new one. Hope this makes sense to you! Uwe Koloska P.S.: I don't know wether images are allowed, but if then find attached a small example of a quotation (a question) with an answer from my mailreader.
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