RE: [cobalt-users] top posting?

[Dom Latter <DLatter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> OK. I've heard people mention this thing called top posting. Can
> someone tell me what it is, so I don't do it unintentionally? :-)

Gladly.  Top-posting is the habit of putting your comments at the 
top of the post.  It is a habit that is re-inforced by certain brain-
dead email clients, which leads some people to think that it's a 
valid way of doing things.  It goes hand in hand with the evil that
is Failing To Trim.

It's okay to put a preceding comment at the top of the post *if*
that's where it makes most sense - e.g. a general comment about
what you are about to say.

Otherwise, answer to questions, rebuttals, etc., should **follow** 
the quoted bit of text that you are referring to.  Like this:

> Seems like a sure way to make enemies...

That's going a bit far; but posting in the accepted way does make 
you look more clued-up, professional and courteous.  In my eyes, 
at any rate.

In Short:
1) Remove quoted text that you do not wish to comment on.
2) Put your comment after the quote that it refers to.
3) Leave a blank line either side of your new text.
4) If you have more than one comment to make, intersperse new and old.