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Old January 29th 05, 06:36 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Top v Bottom Posting

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Rob Overfield writes:
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I've seen this debate before in other groups and the consensus was that
bottom posting is far better as regards the natural flow. The reason top
posting exists is that some readers like OE place the cursor at the top of
the page, which is lazy, instead of the more natural and more logical way of
replying after the quote.


That's not the problem. You want the cursor at the top initially when
composing your reply, so you can easily work your way through the
article that you're responding to, cutting out bits that you aren't
addressing and inserting your responses in the appropriate places.

What OE does wrong is it sticks your own sig _above_ the quoted text,
not after it where it should be. Naturally people then type in their
text before the sig.
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