John Burton wrote: > If you have to scroll through endless pages of untrimmed posting > just to get to a 1 line "I agree", or "Good Point", or even "Oops, the > correct URL is..." then perhaps bottom posting is not the way to go. Quite. In the first two cases, the way to go is probably not to post at all. (In the "wrong URL" case, then only the wrong URL plus a bit of context needs to be quoted). If readers are going to "have to scroll through endless pages of untrimmed posting", there's no point in having it there in the first place. James. -- E-mail address: james | We still have enough spare cardboard sitting around @westexe.demon.co.uk | to send a bus by Parcelforce, although not enough | wrapping to be sure they wouldn't deliver it broken | into two pieces. -- Alan Cox