Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately?

On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 09:40:08AM +1000, Peter West wrote:
> On 6/02/2014 5:31 am, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 01:37:52PM +0000, Tom Davies wrote:
> > > Bottom posting requires a ton of extra work such as trimming and such
> > > which office workers really do not have time for.
>
> Trimming is a sensible thing to do, whichever way you post.  It's
> work for the poster, not the reader, and top-posting is a benefit
> for the reader, not (primarily) the poster.
> .....
> > I really hope you don't mean that trimming is a waste of time. Ever see
> > a reply to a digest message that quoted the whole digest. What fun.
>
> But doesn't trimming undermine the argument?  How can the discussion
> be read sequentially when bits of it have been deleted?

The idea is to leave the part of the quoted text you're replying to and
yes, the discussion can still be read sequentially.

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