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On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Marco Matthies wrote:

> I agree with you that it is annoying to scroll through a whole 10
> pages of quoted e-mail conversation just to find the two-line answer
> hidden at the bottom

The real problem is those people too lazy to trim their posts to just what
they are responding to... once upon a time people weren't so lazy and so
bottom posting was the logical choice (this post is a good example of how
posts should be done).


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