Re: [boost] What's wrong with top-posting?

Subject: Re: [boost] What's wrong with top-posting?
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-26 14:44:51

On 6/26/17 6:46 AM, Paul A. Bristow via Boost wrote:

  Boost has always bottom posted and I don't see any good reason to change.
> 
> You can always see the full discussions on sites like Nabble.
> 
> Paul
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> PS It is also traditional to stick to plain text - usable by everyone and no risk of nasties hidden in HTML.
> 

The only thing I might mention is that we used to bug people more about 
over quoting.  I think that bottom posting works better when poster 
snips out parts of the quote that are not relevant to his comments. 
FWIW David Abrahams was the chief overquoting nanny.

Robert Ramey