"Jeff Layman" <jmlayman@invalid.invalid> wrote in
news:ht1gst$rqj$1@news.albasani.net:
> "Alias" <aka@maskedandanymous.org.invalido> wrote in
> message news:ht1bdc$7jq$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>> Jeff Layman wrote:
>>> But it is new and almost specific to Windows 7. And I'd
>>> rather read it ten times in different places than not at
>>> all.
>>>
>>> And this isn't a forum - it's a newsgroup.
>>>
>>
>> Where top posting -- especially with a delimiter -- is
>> frowned upon.
>>
>
> True, and I reply with bottom posting except where the
> reply to the OP has been made with top posting. It makes
> little sense to respond to that reply with bottom posting,
> effectively splitting the message into a nonsense order
> where you want to keep all the message information.
That's a good point, as the poster that did the top-post in
the first place is most likely expecting that.
I think the bigger issue was that MS Live Mail put the quoted
text below the delimiter. As you can see, the OPs context is
now lost because a compliant newsreader does not include the
OPs sig & delimiter when you select 'Reply' or 'Followup', as
I did here or Alias did before.
Instead of splitting the message, it deletes the text of the
original message. So if that was important info that may be of
use in a later post in the same thread, you would need to go
back and re-read messages to find the missing info.
(This is just FYI. I don't care one way or the other. I'm not
defending anyone, my 'panties arent in a bunch', or whatever
other sayings some persons may use to personally attack me.)