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Old 21-05-2004, 09:08 AM
Nick Maclaren
 
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Default Pruning parsley?


In article ,
"Paul D.Smith" writes:
| "Kay Easton" wrote in message
| ...
|
| [ Quite a lot snipped ]
|
| I think I see. So this is a bottom post, right? Main problem I see is that
| with a top post, I know where the most recent, and therefore useful,
| information is - at the top of the mail. With bottom posting, the start of
| the most recent information is at some unknown point up from the end of the
| mail. Oh, and for all I know, the responder has inserted responses too,
| since that sometimes makes sense.

Yes, but it was a VERY BAD bottom post. You should have removed
the extraneous junk, in which case it becomes clear which aspect
of the previous posting you are replying to. Look at what I have
done.

Some threads accumulate many thousands of lines of responses, and
it would be insane to include everything, top or bottom.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.