Ryan Viljoen schrieb: > Ok if he is getting anal about whether I reply on the top or on the > bottom then tough luck. It makes more sense to me that it is on the > top since: > a) you dont need to scroll
You don't need to anyway. And if you're full quoting, you can as well quote NOTHING at all. Makes just as much sense and shows how wrong that quoting style is... > b) if you have been following the thread then you know whats been said > already Yep. But with normal quoting style (ie. what I'm doing here), there's less need for reudundancy. > c) the only time i will do it in reverse is when quoting what has been said. Exactly. And since you should (close to) never do full quotes, you'll never do full quotes. > > END! > > On 10/30/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My reply being on top of what you wrote. Some people like it on the >> bottom. I guess someone will be upset no matter which way you do it. I >> just like the top so that I don't have to scroll down. My mouse wheel >> leaves a little to be desired. >> >> Dale >> >> Ryan Viljoen wrote: >> >> >Is that better? And while we are on the matter what is top posting? >> > >> > >> > >> -- >> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Don't quote signatures, please. >> >> > > > -- > "When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just > stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for > free". - Linus Torvalds, 1995 Wrong signature delimiter. It is "-- \n", and nothing else. -- Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
