Top Post vs Bottom Post (was: Fedora-18 -- how to install?)

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, William Park wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 03:30:21PM -0500, Alejandro Imass wrote:
>> I can't believe that people prefer top posting rather than clipping
>> and answering only relevant portions in-line.
>
> Yes, but only if the original email is logically structured with proper
> paragraphing, so that you can respond point by point.

    Insert a new line after each point.

>  But, you know,
> that's rare in real world.  What do you do if
>    - those "relevant portions" are all over the place?

    Put your responses all over the place. (And cut irrelevant portions
    of the original.)

>    - if original email needs to be preserved as posted and included as
>      reference?

    Then preserve it. It doesn't need to be sent back and forth with
    every reply.

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