On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Raul <[email protected]> wrote: > > The problem with this practice is neatly summed up by the following FAQ > entry: > > A: No. > Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? > > The fallacy with that example is that no one has viewed the question ("Should I include ....?") before the answer pops up. Whereas in real mailing list conversations, the answer is always (99% of the cases at any rate) 'below' the question in the temporal axis.
There are many things to be said in favour of proper quoting and bottom posting on publicly archived mailing lists, but using the above example to "prove the point" is improper and misleading to say the least.
