<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">If only interleaving were so easy. I try to do it but Webmail makes it difficult and Thunderbird isn't much better. I sometimes resort to dashes, and I hope that is effective.<div><br></div><div>Of course, I top-post because I am using email, and top-posting is best for email, where I don't need to read my own question before I read the response. It's also plainly the best format for this forum, because no one needs to read a poster's original question 6 times while reading the 6 answers posted in response. </div><div><br></div><div>Naturally many people disagree---this is after all the Internet.<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 1/6/11, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <i><danldo@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo@gmail.com><br>Subject:
Re: (urth) Threadtiquette<br>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth@lists.urth.net><br>Date: Thursday, January 6, 2011, 2:20 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">2011/1/6 António Pedro Marques <<a ymailto="mailto:entonio@gmail.com" href="/mc/compose?to=entonio@gmail.com">entonio@gmail.com</a>>:<br><br>> I think interleaved replying - which is incompatible with topposting - helps<br>> keep focus and avoiding repetition. It also kind of ensures that you read<br>> what you're replying to.<br><br>Indeed, interleaved replying is _the_ defining motif of email/Usenet<br>communications. It has the unique feature that you can interrupt<br>someone without being rude. Some years ago I coined a word for this<br>style of semi-collaborative writing: Coinscription.<br><br>-- <br>Dan'l Danehy-Oakes<br>_______________________________________________<br>Urth Mailing List<br>To post, write <a ymailto="mailto:urth@urth.net"
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