Ambiguity through inappropriate message layout
Andrew Pam
xanni at glasswings.com.au
Mon Sep 18 03:22:52 CST 2006
On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 12:38 +0930, Mark Newton wrote:
> If someone has been following a conversation closely enough to know its
> context, and their correspondent is good enough at writing that their
> replies are largely self-contained, then top-posting is probably
> better because you can get to the meat of the reply without wading
> through terabytes of crap you've already read and don't need to see
> again.
Why are "terabytes of crap" still in the reply? Editing is a valuable
skill.
Regards,
Andrew
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