On Mon 13 Oct 2008 09:28:39p, Blinky the Shark told us...

> Okay, I see what you mean. But in your example, of course, there's a
> missing attribution - to my last post - at the top, where attribution
> belongs, so the chain up there is broken.
>
> No, that's not going to happen with inter- or bottom-posting. I do see
> some people manually adding stuff like
>
> Blinky said:
>
> to each block when they bottom-post. What a waste of time.

Unless I'm misunderstanding what you just said, the newsreader can easily
and automatically add the "Blinky said:" or other lead-in to the
attribution. It takes no time for the poster once the verbage is set up.
I'm sure you know that from Xnews.

When I remember to "snip" (LOL), I try to capture the appropriate attrib
for the quote. Sometimes it's messy when there seems to be a need to quote
more than one poster for the sake of continuity and someone else has
screwed up all the attribs at the top.

I've quite gotten used to bottom posting, though at one time I thought top
posting was more appropriate, as it is in e-mail. Depending on the
circustances, and hopefully clarifying responses to a longer post, I also
like inter-posting, but I usually do that only when replying to a single
poster's quote.

Honestly, it wouldn't matter to me in the least whether top or bottom
posting was used as long as it was consistent. It's the inconsistency that
I find frustrating.

--
Wayne Boatwright
(correct the spelling of "geemail" to reply)

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