[ic] RE: Top Quoting - What is it?

[Joachim Leidinger]

Andrew Lietzow wrote:
> 
> Dear Mike Heins,
> RE:>>I have simply started ignoring messages that top-quote.
> ---------
> Just so that I don't get on your bad side right off the bat, could you take
> a moment and define "top-quote".  Is what I am doing here considered
> "top-quoting"?
> 
> I have always tried to include enough detail (about preceding messages in a
> thread) as to allow a reader with little knowledge of the previous
> conversation to quickly
> catch up.  Is this not good protocol?
> 
> Andrew Lietzow
> The ACL Group, Inc.

Look at

http://interchange.redhat.com/archive/interchange-users/2001/msg10876.html

and the section with

-- Contextual quoting is preferred, i.e.

Joachim

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