Re: META: Proper quoting

> I find top-quoting extremely annoying too. It's like in the TV show Jeopardy. A: Top posters. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet? Does it make sense to post something in that order? No. Maintaining a strict Q-A order facilitates processing of your email on the recipient's side. (Example courtesy of http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/quote.html) > Removing uncessary stuff is a good thing, unless it would be hard for > people who just join the discussion to follow it all. People who join the discussion are the _exception_. You should cater to those who are already following the debate, because that is the larger set of people. That's true for 1-1 email conversations and 1-n communication (for which news.php.net exists). > You can also > remove too much stuff... (for example just remove everything and > write only your reply in a mail), like here: > > > > > <URL:http://news.php.net/article.php?group=php.dev&article=92888> In the above example, the quotation was cut down to the essential piece the author was replying to -- exactly the way it should be. - Sascha