Re: [SLUG] Thunderbird - Starts at the bottom of the email?!?! WHY GOD WHY

From: Robin 'Roblimo' Miller (robin@roblimo.com)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2008 - 11:43:28 EST


> One of the reasons bottom posting gets a bad rap is because people neglect
> to *trim* unnecessary content from prior posts when quoting.

Yup. Many don't even trim automated list footers.

Really, people (and other on this list), you don't need to quote more
than a key line or to from the message to which you're replying. The
people (and other list denizens) reading your message already read the
previous ones, same as you, and can dig them out of wherever they filed
them if they want to read them again.

- Robin
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