On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Peter McCracken wrote:

>And perhaps someone could answer why bottom-posting is better, anyway? 
>I'll obey it, if that's etiquette.  But I would have thought top posts
>were easier to read.

I don't think bottom posting is the best way.  In-Line posting is most 
often mentioned as the way to go.  You reply to what you are reading right 
after it is written.  This is good for multiple reasons.  You can jump 
into the conversation at anytime and know what is going on, Mailing list 
web archives are much easier to get information out of, and when inline 
posting you usually are better about trimming messages, which saves 
bandwidth.  Figure if you trim 10k worth of a message off it doesn't sound 
like much, but you get a mailing list with 1000 members, you have saved 
the mailing list provider 10MB worth of transfer for that one message.


Christopher Fisk
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