> Susan Burchett wrote...
>> Top posting means I can read the message without downloading more mega
>>bytes.
>
> Top posting messes up the logic of some threads where the comments must
> be read in sequence to make sense.
>
> Bottom- or interleaved-posting is only a problem when people fail to
> snip out unnecessary stuff from previous posts.
>
> I agree that it is a pain having to scroll down looking for a reply and
> there have been some naughty people who have quoted the entire previous
> post, complete with all the Yahoo bits at the bottom, to add just a few
> words of their own. As a rough guide, I would say that there should
> never be more than 10 lines of quoted text before the fist bit of reply
> is visible.
>
>>If the message doesn't show on half a computer screen I don't read it.
>>
> Aha! That means that we can say what we like about you as long as we
> hide it below half a screen of quotes!
> --
> Martin Clark
>
I should have added - except when I am at home on broadband. If we have been
reading the emails we know what others have said so don't need it repeated.
I expect we will all do what we are happiest with. Just remember some of us
are on mobiles a lot of the time.
:-))))
Sue nb Nackered Navvy
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