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Re: Top posting [was: MM - #$%@ Kill Google!]


From: "Dave Korn" <davek_throwaway () hotmail com>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 18:17:01 +0100

----Original Message----
From: Dee Holtsclaw
Message-Id: 200509091035.48430.dee () pestcontroldata com

It's also quite a pain to inline post for those unfortunates stuck with
BillCo's LookOut! The quote formatting in many versions tends to get
confused when you try to insert new text and you often end up with a
tangled mess.

  Get OE-QuoteFix.  It's completely brilliant and sorts out all those
formatting problems.  I can't recommend it enough!

Although I do not suffer from this myself (I'm running FC3 and using
KMail), I tend to top-post when writing a essay style reply (or diatribe)
and the quoted message is included for reference only (or when sending

  Please, snip the quote.  Everyone's seen it already, and even if they
haven't, it will usually be just above your reply in their
newsreader/browser/whatever.  It's 100% redundant.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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Can't think of a witty .sigline today....



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