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On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Rick Green  wrote:

quoted text
> publishers of such software is not fit for a polite forum such as this.

Main problem is this:

We are not posting to a forum, as we understand what is a forum (web forum)

This is a mailing list, and that way must be treated.
Quote from the site Thorsten give us (http://www.idallen.com/topposting.html)
"Some argue that you should already know the context for a top-posted

reply; so, scrolling down to read the quoted context should be

unnecessary. If you expect your reader to remember the context, you

don't need to quote the original message. If you think the quoted

reply is necessary, edit it down and bottom-post under it to make it

read in a logical order. "
    and also:
"Knowing the context is also not true for people reading archived

discussions, where the people reading the messages are either away

from the discussion for a long time or are not the ones who originated

the messages. A top-posted message thread forwarded to a third party

also subjects the third party to a lot of unnecessary work reading

bottom-to-top."
Leo

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