Re: Top posting and "no subject" messages.

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T. Ribbrock wrote:
 
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 01:18:53AM -0000, Roger Beever wrote:

> > > It does not help when your email client always starts you are the top of
> > > the reply

> > I *never* understood that "excuse".
 
> > A little out of contest as I was making the point regarding newbies to Linux
 
> Fair enough, but I took that quote on its own on purpose, as I've
> heard that excuse over and over again - and it just doesn't make
> sense. The placement of the cursor has nothing to do with quoting and
> it's important (IMO) that also newbies understand that.

The top is the logical place to begin to trim out the portion of the
quote that is irrelevant to your reply, but I doubt there are many
Outhouse Excess users to whom it occurs that they can or should trim the
quote. :-(
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