On 2017-05-27, Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > On 2017-05-27, gwmf...@openmailbox.org <gwmf...@openmailbox.org> wrote: >>> >>> Define "appears to not be working." Anyhow, I believe someone here can >>> help you with this if only they'll pipe up (and you stop top-posting). >>> >>> ;-) >> >> "Top-posting" is putting my writing above the quote? this is frowned >> upon? (or you were joking?). I wasn't aware top-posting was bad. I'll >> stop doing it. >> > > Normally, you should "interleave" your responses, trimming the material > not pertinent to your reply. > > I say this because bottom-posting (like bottom-fishing--well, not > precisely) in which the poster quotes (following others of his ilk) an > entire thread in order to make one superfluous comment at the bottom is > just as bad, if not worse (I think its worse), although the behavior is it's > seldom reprimanded. > >
-- "It might be a vision--of a shell, of a wheelbarrow, of a fairy kingdom on the far side of the hedge; or it might be the glory of speed; no one knew." --Mrs. Ramsay, speculating on why her little daughter might be dashing about, in "To the Lighthouse," by Virginia Woolf.