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echo: points
to: MARK LEWIS
from: AUGUST ABOLINS
date: 2020-04-26 11:56:00
subject: winpoint

Hello mark!

** On 26.04.20 - 11:07, mark lewis wrote to August Abolins:

 ml>frankly, top posting stinks worse than dead rotten skunk carcasses...

I concur.  I find that most top posters include the whole original post  
and don't bother to remove the irrelevant (stinky) parts.  But then I  
guess each person has their own sense of smell.  :(


 ml>bottom posting is ok but in-line is much preferred since it is a more
 ml>conversational presentation and allows the reader to understand the flow
 ml>of the conversation much much better...

By bottom-posting I meant/include in-line, that is writing *after* the  
relevant text.

In-line is a fine fidonet original style.

Have you ever tried to modify internet email messages to in-line?  I would  
use a combination of indent, bullets, italic, bold.  It freaks out some  
people that you reply to!  :)

Some "devices" would be inconsistent on how they handle bullets, then it  
is hard to understand who wrote what.


  ../|ug

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