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bottom-post
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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v. In a news or mail reply, to put the response to a news or email message
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after the quoted content from the parent message. This is correct form, and
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until around 2000 was so universal on the Internet that neither the term
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bottom-post nor its antonym top-post existed. Hackers consider that the best
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practice is actually to excerpt only the relevent portions of the parent
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message, then intersperse the poster's response in such a way that each
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section of response appears directly after the excerpt it applies to. This
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reduces message bulk, keeps thread content in a logical order, and
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facilitates reading.
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