On 13/01/13 08:06, Dan Youngquist wrote: > It really doesn't take 8 levels of quotes, and a whole bunch of text from > each, to preserve the continuity of a conversation; Agreed. > and it defeats the purpose of bottom-posting. I prefer the terms "interleaved" or "inline posting" rather than bottom posting, because comments don't appear only at the *bottom* of the email, at the end of all the quoted text, but are interleaved between quotes, as if the writers were carrying on a conversation. > So, I hope we can convince folks to trim their replies a little more. What he said. -- Steven