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Explicitly say 'no top-posting'. Add links to Wikipedia posting article

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<title>Boost Discussion Policy</title>
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<h3>Use a Readable Quotation Style</h3>
<p>A common and very useful approach is to cite the small fractions of the
message you are actually responding to and to put your response directly
<p>Don't <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting">
top-post</a>; inline replies are the appropriate
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style">posting style</a> for
Boost lists.</p>
<p>The common and very useful inline approach cites the small fractions of the
message you are actually responding to and puts your response directly
beneath each citation, with a blank line separating them for
readability:</p>
<blockquote>
<pre>
<i>Person-you're-replying-to</i> wrote:
<pre><i>Person-you're-replying-to</i> wrote:
&gt; Some part of a paragraph that you wish to reply to goes
&gt; here; there may be several lines.
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&gt; reply goes here; agiain there may be several lines.
Your response to the second part of the message goes here.
...
</pre>
...</pre>
</blockquote>For more information about effective use of quotation in
posts, see <a href="http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html">this
helpful guide</a>.
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<p>Revised
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<p><i>Copyright &copy; 2000-2005 Beman Dawes, Rob Stewart, and David Abrahams</i></p>
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at <a href=
"http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)</i></p>
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