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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Could we drop the bottom-posting rule?
From: addw@phcomp.co.uk (Alain D D Williams)

On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 05:34:41PM +0100, 😉 Good Guy 😉 wrote:
> With top posts people can go straight to the point raised by the poster.  If
> anyone is following the thread, he doesn't need 3 pages of previous posts. 
> All he needs is what is being posted by the poster in question.

I completely agree -- which is why when I reply I remove redundant stuff so
that only relevant lines from previous email are quoted to give context.

The way that I look at it is: 100+ people are going to be reading what I write.
If by spending 30 seconds trimming quotes so that it takes them 2 seconds to
understand what I am saying rather than 4 seconds then I have saved the list 2
seconds times 100+ each - ie 200+ seconds which costs me 30 seconds -- so an
overall win. **

BTW: a mutt user here - middle/bottom posting is easy.


** argue about the numbers if you wish, but that is the principle.

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Alain Williams
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