Re: pointing hyperlink to a shortcut

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From: aa (aa_at_virgin.net)
Date: 04/02/04 

Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 17:58:45 +0100

This is a matter of personal preferences. I know a lot of prople who do not
like inline comments because the do not preserve the original message

The Top postiong allows to keep the original message intact.

The best way to reply is using the context and with top posting it is done
by copying the relevant bits from the original on top.

I apprecuiate that this bloats a posting, but this was an issue time ago,
but today given the existing speed and cost of memory it is not an issue.
I therefore do not see why some people should impose their personal
preferences onto the others.

"Bob Barrows [MVP]" <reb01501@NOyahoo.SPAMcom> wrote in message
news:eD4y58%23FEHA.3180@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> This is a "top post". I've placed my reply above the quote of your
message.
> Do a Google on the word netiquette to read why it is frowned upon.
>
> ljb wrote:
> > What is "top post"? I'm sorry I'm not familiar with that term.
>
> This is an "inline" or "interspersed" reply, so named becuase it appears
> directly below the quoted text to which I am replying. It can help make a
> conversation easier to follow, especially if I am replying to several
points
> within your post. Inline posting is preferred because it encourages the
> person making the reply to trim the irrelevant pieces of text from the
> quoted text.
>
> >
> > thanks
>
> This is also an "inline" or "interspersed" reply, but it is sometimes
> mistakenly called a "bottom post", which should refer to a post which is
the
> opposite of a "top" post: the entire reply text appears below the entire
> block of quoted text. This can be just as bad as top-posting since the
> bottom-poster may neglect to trim the quote.
>
> Bob Barrows
> --
> Microsoft MVP -- ASP/ASP.NET
> Please reply to the newsgroup. The email account listed in my From
> header is my spam trap, so I don't check it very often. You will get a
> quicker response by posting to the newsgroup.
>
>

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