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Of course, we should be careful to acknowledge any substantial points which have not been challenged. In that spirit, I mention that I had never heard J's other meaning of "top posting"
Oh! erm ok...
My issue with writing emails above what you are replying to is tat people say it "disturbs the flow of reading" well my answer is simple - I am not using the replied email as a crib. I expect you to have read the previous email, and I only include it there incase you have not. This is meerly a different style of writing to inline emails, and should only be used when you are writing a complete email that has some kind of introduction, and some kind of ending. I agree fully that if you just write an email saying "yup, thats right" with the rest of the email below, that it can be very misleading.
and I don't want more moderation of main either. I just ask for documented technical limits like the attachment block and the size limit that reduce large waste and digest disruption.
Which is why I tend to delete all but the last one or two emails in the history, but I am using it meerly as a history crib, not as the historical flow of reading - I have the archive or my inbox if I want to do that.
I remind people that whole-quoting may even be a breach of copyright in some cases (albeit minor), while quoting a small amount for commentary or criticism is fair dealing.
Always the political correct one.
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