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Veronica Karlsson wrote:
>
> If article n+1 is a response to article n then it often does not make
> sense if the reader has not already read article n (or has not read it
> very recently). In email you can assume that the reader has done that.
> On usenet you cannot.

That's why article n can be included (as a reference) in the end of the
message.

Of course, if you want to answer to a particular idea of the article, you
should quote it before your answer, and I think nobody disagrees with
that... But then it's not bottom-posting it would be middle-posting or
center-posting (?).
But if you want to answer the whole article, I say you should either not
quote it at all, or quote it at the END so readers do not have to scroll
down to read it.

Now of course this may or may NOT be what netiquette says. But hey, some
things have to evolve ;) And we must consider the new parameters (for
example useragents become more and more 'intelligent', bandwidth is less and
less a problem, ...)

BoD


>
>> The more important thing
>> should not appear in the end of the message, but at the top.
>
> I agree. That's why the quoted stuff should be kept *short*.
>
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