Terry Streeter wrote:
> If an appropriate amount of snipping is done then you shouldn't need to
> scroll down to see the response.  Unfortunately, some people don't seem
> to know what the cursor and backspace keys are for.

I am in full agreement with this. Bottom-posting is my preference, along 
with heavy snipping, as in the example of this very reply.

It should never be necessary to have to scroll down to see the start of 
a reply - it should be visible even on a split-window panel (or whatever 
you call it when the reply appears in half of the screen).

I almost always bottom-post (with snipping), or sometimes interleave my 
comments in between parts of the message I am replying to, even when 
writing emails. This has led to amusing situations when I reply to 
people who only know the corporate top-posting method who can't work out 
where my reply is as they only think to look at the very top!

However, as others have said, the norm here has been to bottom post, so 
that puzzlement shouldn't occur here.
-- 
Martin Clark

Pennine Waterways Website    http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk

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