[Elecraft] Top Posting is the official standard for the Elecraft list

[David Woolley (E.L)]

In that case, could I suggest you remove the requirement to trim replies 
from your posting guidelines, as, in my experience, top posters will 
never trim replies.  It is the process of doing a proper interleaved 
reply that leads to trimming.  The real problem in the example that 
triggered this thread was over-quoting and failing to interleave point 
by point - pure bottom posting is also bad, although posting at the 
bottom because everything else after the post has bee trimmed out, is 
good.  (Note that I read the digest on Thunderbird, and the lack of 
trimming is very annoying, as I have to page through the back thread, as 
well as the general increase in bandwidth and mail folder disk space.)

Are there really no PDA email clients that follow the ancient technique 
of hiding lines beginning in ">"?

Bad practice, like not trimming replies, quoting after ones own 
signature separator, and, in particular, not trimming signatures, 
follows.  I.E. this is formatted according to de facto top posting rules.

-- 
David Woolley
"we do not overly restrict the subject matter on the list, and we
encourage postings on a wide range of amateur radio related topics"
List Guidelines <http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_list_guidelines.htm>

Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft wrote:
> [re-post with more accurate subject line]

> 
> Top posting is the official standard for this list, and its especially
> important for those of us who also read our email on PDA phones. (I'm
> using the new Motorola Droid..)
> 
> Reading the response first, at the top, is a huge time saver, especially 
> when you have to read hundreds of emails daily as we do here.
> 
> 73, Eric   WA6HHQ
> elecraft List Moderator
>