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[Digimer]

On 05/27/2013 04:27 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 04:05:19PM -0400, Myles Braithwaite wrote:
>> Personally I don't like bottom posting I find it harder to read.
>> Especially now that people seem to be sending HTML emails which are
>> screwing up the <blockquote> tag.
>
> I don't read HTML emails.  If there is a plain text version, I read that,
> and otherwise I don't read it at all.
>
> People that send HTML only generally haven't said anything I would care
> to read anyhow.  At least that's my assumption.  I haven't seen any
> evidence to the contrary obviously. :)
>
> And generally useful responses are interleaved with the quoted message,
> since trying to make sense of an interesting discussion otherwise
> becomes imposible.  Maybe people that only have trivial conversations
> can get away with top posting.

That's a pretty dismissive attitude, if I may say so.

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