(urth) Top Posting Makes The Theoanthropos Cry

maru dubshinki marudubshinki at gmail.com
Thu Aug 31 17:07:32 PDT 2006


On 8/28/06, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> I top-post, as a general rule, only when I don't think there's
> a need for interleaving (an ugly word; I coined the word
> "coinscription" to describe the way we write inside each
> others' texts in email/mailing lists, and will take this
> oppty to plug it). As a general rule, I try to write such notes
> so that no context is required and cut the original out
> completely -- as here; but sometimes I forget to cut it.
....
> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant

Personally, I rather like the term "interleaving". To me, it makes it
sound as if our conversations are collaboratively authoring a book,
each page of which is a section.

~maru



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