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blake murphy wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:46:44 -0700, sf wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:48:41 GMT, blake murphy
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:01:24 -0700, sf wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Which is only one more reason why I hate bottom posting. Most people
>>>> have no idea how to tell who said what in a long thread and just
>>>> strip. If the culture here was to top post, then the correct
>>>> attributions would stay with comments and nobody would need to
>>>> complain.
>>>
>>>that some people fail to trim properly is not a justification for
>>>top-posting.
>>>

>>
>> I'm not justifying anything. Bottom posting sucks because
>> attributions don't stay with the message body.

>
> they do if you're a competent poster.


Not the way she want's them, blake. She wants something like

Blinky said:

to appear before every block of text, whenever the writer changes,
throughout the whole post. Not the normal attributions at the top,
which tell you who wrote each big of text. Some people - rare, they are -
do that by hand. Much ado about nothing, they're into.


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