Robert L Mathews wrote:
> At 8/26/03 12:56 AM, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:
>
> >I do often top-post, and I didn't realize it was an issue until this
> >week. I usually top-post when I need to make a comment on the entire
> >email, like "Is there a TODO here?", "patch applied", or something like
> >that so people know what I am saying. If I want to respond in a
> >detailed way, I trim and post comments below each section. My top-posts
> >also have a horizontal line at the bottom so it is clear it is a top
> >post. Is that OK?
>
> Actually, the horizontal line looks almost exactly like the message
> separator to those receiving the list in digest mode (it's just a little
> wider), and has confused me a number of times.
>
> Since you're asking, please don't do that :-)
Oh, interesting --- digest mode. I think in top-posting, it is
important to clearly show where your posting stops. If not, you get the
comment, then a "XXX Wrote:" which isn't a very clear delimiter. Is
there some other way I could mark the end of a top comment?
In my case, when I top post, I need to retain the entire text so people
will recognize it.
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