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Explicitly say 'no top-posting'. Add links to Wikipedia posting article
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
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<meta name="generator" content="Microsoft FrontPage 6.0">
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<meta name="generator" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
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<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
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<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
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<title>Boost Discussion Policy</title>
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<title>Boost Discussion Policy</title>
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<h3>Use a Readable Quotation Style</h3>
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<h3>Use a Readable Quotation Style</h3>
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<p>A common and very useful approach is to cite the small fractions of the
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<p>Don't <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting">
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message you are actually responding to and to put your response directly
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top-post</a>; inline replies are the appropriate
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style">posting style</a> for
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Boost lists.</p>
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<p>The common and very useful inline approach cites the small fractions of the
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message you are actually responding to and puts your response directly
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beneath each citation, with a blank line separating them for
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beneath each citation, with a blank line separating them for
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readability:</p>
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readability:</p>
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<blockquote>
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<blockquote>
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<pre>
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<pre><i>Person-you're-replying-to</i> wrote:
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<i>Person-you're-replying-to</i> wrote:
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> Some part of a paragraph that you wish to reply to goes
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> Some part of a paragraph that you wish to reply to goes
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> here; there may be several lines.
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> here; there may be several lines.
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> reply goes here; agiain there may be several lines.
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> reply goes here; agiain there may be several lines.
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Your response to the second part of the message goes here.
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Your response to the second part of the message goes here.
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...</pre>
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</pre>
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</blockquote>For more information about effective use of quotation in
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</blockquote>For more information about effective use of quotation in
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posts, see <a href="http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html">this
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posts, see <a href="http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html">this
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helpful guide</a>.
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helpful guide</a>.
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height="31" width="88"></a></p>
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height="31" width="88"></a></p>
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<p>Revised
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<p>Revised
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<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->04 December, 2006<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="38514" --></p>
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<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->07 November, 2007<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="39369" --></p>
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<p><i>Copyright © 2000-2005 Beman Dawes, Rob Stewart, and David Abrahams</i></p>
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<p><i>Copyright © 2000-2005 Beman Dawes, Rob Stewart, and David Abrahams</i></p>
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