On 2016-01-05 11:11, Dilip Ranganathan wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:36 AM, Nicol Bolas wrote:
>> Also, stop top-posting.
>
> What if you want to make a general point and not trying to address any
> issue in particular?

....then omit the irrelevant context :-).

I think I've posted messages like:

  > lots of people wrote lots of stuff on <topic>

  <general point here>

  <signature>

....and certainly this is an acceptable format. That is, a short "quoted
text" summarizing the topic and making clear that I am not responding to
any particular points, but to the general discussion, followed by my own
comments, followed by no extraneous content that a) wastes storage
space, screen space, and network bandwidth, and b) makes it unclear to
the reader whether or not the quoted content is important.

Trim-posting (http://www.palmyanoff.com/trimpost.htm) is NOT dead, and I
take issue with anyone that claims otherwise. Not least because I use a
mail client that isn't a piece of garbage (gmail, I'm looking at you...).

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Matthew

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