Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> 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
Well, of COURSE it can. But not the way she wants it to. Read on.
> attribution. It takes no time for the poster once the verbage is set
> up. I'm sure you know that from Xnews.
You are indeed misunderstanding. She wants *each block of text*
*throughout the message* to have an indvidually prepended an attribution
like I will do manually for the rest of this reply...
Wayne Boatwright said:
> 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.
NOT the normal top-attributions that our news clients do if configured
properly.
Wayne Boatwright said:
> 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
It sucks in email, as well. It have no problems with it for languages
that are read from bottom to top, but that's not English.
Wayne Boatwright said:
> 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.
I usually don't respond to top posters, because *I* will not top post and
I agree that the inconsistency they introduce sucks.
http://blinkynet.net/comp/toppost.html
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