Re: arsclist Top vs. Bottom Posting

["George Brock-Nannestad" <pattac@xxxxxxxx>]

From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad

Re: Frank Premise Checker's contribution:

Please, you literates, what is "top posting" vs. "bottom posting"? 
I usually take the trouble to quote just that part which needs 
commenting - what kind of posting is that? "Partial bottom 
posting", perhaps, because the quote part is above my own 
contribution? I always delete the adminstrativa.

Since I do not know what to concentrate on, the following is more 
or less complete regarding the subject:

Quote:
> > NOTE: Please use bottom posting unless you have a compelling reason
> > not to. It facilitates removing extraneous quotation and certainly
> > encourages deleting the reduplicated ads.
> > 
> > Mike
> > mrichter@xxxxxxx

> 
> Mike, I've never seen a format where bottom posting is best. This is
> true of the UNIX programs, Pine for e-mail, trn and tin for
> newsgroups, and of Outlook and Outlook Express for both. This issue
> has received a certain amount of attention, and I recall that the
> Germans prefer bottom posting but that most everyone else prefers top
> posting. We could take a poll.
................
> 
> Frank

Please, please!

Kind regards,


George
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